In looking at one of the many mathematically focused games on the Android platform – King of Math, namely – I was running through a couple of the pop-quiz questions that the game presents under a label of Statistics, but in such that at least some of the quiz questions are rather focused about concepts of mathematical ratios as expressed in decimal percentage expressions. As previously a student of “High School Math,” circa the 1990’s at one public school, I had hoped that the quiz game might present any manner of quiz questions as with regards to statistical permutations, combinatorics, and mathematical probability calculations – perhaps anything like as such that myself and my fellow students had studied, during the “High School Math” course that we had attended, circa the 1990s in public school systems. The course, at least, had addressed such concepts – explaining such concepts as for any manner of a mathematical mechanics of calculations onto concepts of mathematical permutations, combinatorics, and mathematical probability, such that we the students were to learn how to “Do,” ourselves. Of course, the course was conducted in a standard format – the teacher illustrating how to do the math, and we as the students likewise watching the lecture and participating in the teacher’s question sessions, then subsequently doing each our own homework and completing the canonic quizzes of the course.
Of course, to those of us who may not have thought that the mathematical content of the course was too deeply involving, our conversations during the subsequent class activity sessions may’ve included conversations – albeit, naively in regards – questions such as: What would it be like to hold a volume of matter as dense as the sun or of a density approaching the theoretical density of a black hole, but to hold such a mass as on a surface of an object as small as a teaspoon? We also did the homework and the quizzes, and continued – each of us individually, after high school – continuing on to nothing whatsoever like any careers in theoretical physics.
So, I am at least topically familiar with some topics of statistical mathematics. As my being – informally – a student of some of the perhaps more philosophical schools of thought, in contemporary academia, I am also personally familiar with some concepts of Definitions of concepts – broadly, epistemology, however represented in systems of knowledge representation, ontologies, taxonomies, description logics, first order logics, predicate logics, propositional logics, and any number of programming langauges’ own structurally unique syntaxes. In a manner of a short synopsis about such epistemic systems: That a definition of Concept is a concept, itself – but, of course, there must be any manner of a resource that would define a Concept, as in order for a Concept to be defined, if not known as a concept in any manner of a context.
Thus, though it may not seem to be deeply addressed of the contemporary academia, a concept: Canonical Knowledge occurs – as in regards to any manner of episetmic systems comprised principally of definitions of concepts.
So, in that regards, I began to wonder: Where is one to define a canonic sense of mathematical concepts, to an extent inasmuch as that one may understand such concepts oneself and may be able to refer bibliographically to any manner of a canonical reference about such concepts? Where is one to “Glue together” so many mathematical concepts as may be presented in so many, many mathematical textbooks, and it include a bibliography too? Would it be suitable to a format of a Wiki? Could it instead be addressed onto the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and thus published centrally of any “known” authors? and but, how much of a veritable firestorm may it create of Academia, to presume to develop any manner of a canonic reference about mathematics and it not hearken from any single, canonical school of mathematics? Might one at least begin at an unpresumptuous beginning: To define a concept of how a Concept may be denoted as canonical to any single resource? and it not be to “Yet another ontology,” alone?
For instance, my own perspective about simple mathematical procedures of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is canonical to the Elementary School course where we were literally drilled about small applications of such mathematical concepts, weekly – as was in completing such topically simple mathematical expressions at magnitudes of integers lesser than or equal to 12, in repeated successions of intervals of time-limited durations, similarly in completing the assignments presented to us in an individual manner in the course, of each timed math quiz session. Thus, personally, I don’t find a lot of joy about such simple mathematical procedures, per se.
Of course, that I don’t personally regard a numeric ratio as it being principally a topic of statistics – returning to the matter of a cute math game, this week – candidly, I was then much annoyed in my own “User Experience” of an otherwise novel and very well illustrated math quiz game, King of Math.
Having ventured, more recently, to search for any more of kinds of mathematics games on the Android platform, I’ve found a few more of mathematical games for Android, but – candidly – I am not all sure if it may appeal to the common readership, even in any context of science, engineering, finance, or other contemporarily canonical technical field. let alone to actually find it to be an entertaining exercise to do the math, in all of a capitally competitive and whatsoever capitally endowed world.
So, but there are some fun maths games on Android – the novelty?
Hardpan Media 