U. Of Toronto: Does the Number E Have Real Physical Meaning?

Mary, Mary, quite continuously, how does your money grow? Uses examples to examine the difference between simple interest and compound interest, and to take a look at different rates of compounding. Learners explore what would...

Practice the techniques associated with number theory. This 5-page worksheet has many different types of problems for the students to solve and is a great component for any number theory unit8.

If you have two feet, you have more than the average number of feet! Explore the meaning of the numbers of measures of central tendency of different data sets with the third of five lessons in a video statistics playlist. Using unique...

Sal continues to look at changing the length of compounding time, from daily to hourly compounding interest. Now he is able to show that compounding 100% annual interest converges on the number 2.71É or e as the number of compounding...

Continuing with the lesson on compound interest, in this video, Sal derives the general formula for any amount of principle, interest rate, and compounding periods over one year.

Sal adds a few more steps to these problems as he solves algebraic equations with two steps, though he states that "there's more than one way to do it." Those who become confused by increasingly complicated algebra problems on a test...

This site discusses the number e as a limit and gives a mathematical definition of e.

This section introduces the transcendental number e which is a special number that is considered a natural base. In addition to exploring how to simplify and solve equations with e, this section also investigates how it can be used to...

You mean it's just average? Provide the definition of the mean of a set of data with a concept video. The instructor works three problems that use the concept of the mean. Each problem increases in difficulty from finding a basic average...

This site provides an explaination of the number e with equations and examples.