3 Pointers in the NBA

So apparently, the amount of 3 point shots have gone up over time in the NBA:

http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2015/story/_/id/12993098/nba-35-year-war-3-pointer

The question is, why?

Here is what I am thinking:

1. We could look at the data and correlate the increasing diversity in the NBA with increased 3 point shots. 

2. We could also analyze the correlation of a shortened 3 point line and the accuracy of the 3 point shot. 

Gay Marriage Stats

Great Article:

http://nyti.ms/1yvn9ti

5 Year Olds can learn calculus

Interesting Article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/5-year-olds-can-learn-calculus/284124/

Double Negatives and Positives (some jokes)

A student sent me this:

"An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."

A voice from the back of the room said, "Yeah, right." —Sai Kishore K"

A nice image of the joke:

Some double negative jokes as well (why not):

Complement Subtraction

Love this algorithm, perfect for any level:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55949.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5p9caXS4U&sns=em

Bootstrap

An interesting resource:

http://www.bootstrapworld.org

Linear and Quadratic Driving

Really intrigued by this find:

Why are stopping distances quadratic while recommended following distances linear? https://t.co/wnkH05M4Vw @Desmos

— Megan Schmidt (@Veganmathbeagle) June 16, 2015

Video games and Scientific Notation

A world without end, quadrillions of planets to explore, fractal math and of course, scientific notation:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/world-without-end-raffi-khatchadourian

Starting the Year

Youcubed is always a great resource. I really like their ideas for the first week:

https://www.youcubed.org/week-of-inspirational-math/

Megaannus and other Units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year#SI_prefix_multipliers

funny comment thread: 

https://m.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2u0ryg/til_that_a_megaannus_is_a_unit_of_time_equal_to_1/


Article to spark conversation:
http://nyti.ms/1Ij7gPR