InstaCalc+and+BetterExplained

=**InstaCalc and BetterExplained**=

**Recording**
[|Full recording: voice, web tour, text chat]

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All Math 2.0 events are free and open to the public. Information about all events in the series is here:http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events

Saturday, June 19th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate room at 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern time: []

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InstaCalc is an online tool designed to make crunching numbers fast and easy. Its goal is usability -- get results as you type, use readable text ("sales = 300M + 10%"), and send any calculation as a link. From simple budgets to homework problems, InstaCalc was made to find answers fast.

InstaCalc also has the embeddable widget you can use on your site: media type="custom" key="6269275"

BetterExplained.com is dedicated to sharing "aha!" moments in clear, simple language. Instead of rote memorization, we cover the insights that make difficult ideas click (for example, imaginary numbers can seem baffling unless you see them as a rotation). Ranging from e and the natural log to radians and pi, our guides are used by thousands of students each day.

Sample topics:
 * [|Visualizing Imaginary numbers] - viewing //i// as a rotation
 * [|Exponentials] and [|natural log] - seeing e^x as continuous growth, and ln(x) as the time to grow to "x"
 * [|Exploring the pythagorean theorem] - noticing that a^2 + b^2 = c^2 can apply to circles, squares, or any shape.

Event Host
Kalid Azad is the creator of BetterExplained.com, a site dedicated to intuitive explanations of math and programming. He has a long interest in education, including writing chapters in programming textbooks, tutoring while at Princeton University and developing instacalc.com, a fast, usable calculator. He previously worked for Microsoft Corporation, and is currently a software developer and entrepreneur.