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Students and community members gathered Saturday at Grand Valley State University to attend presentations during the annual Math in Action Conference. Charlene Beckmann, a mathematics professor at GVSU, has been the co-chair for the conference since 2007. Beckmann said the university continues to host the event every year because it provides an opportunity for both […]
In 2009, Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google and emeritus professor at the University of California, predicted, “I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians…The ability to take data – to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualise it, to communicate […]
This post asks an interesting question. So, as a high school student, I go to the trouble (and it would be some trouble) to learn the value of Pi to 1000 decimal places. Will that make me a better mathematician? NO, according to recent research on how we learn. Check out this article on this […]
As every growing mathematician knows, the area of a rectangle is A = base x height. Yet, simple rectangles can be used to make up some very interesting patterns, as in this interior for a restaurant. Of course, the colors can also be represented mathematically, as in this example from colorcube.com. This website attempts to […]
The amazingly beautiful and accessible Duomo in Milan, built over some 4 centuries, was such a compelling Gothic building that it attracted many talented Mathematicians and Scientists – who wanted to study and share in the beauty and power of the Duomo. As the cathedral’s architecture became the powerhouse of intellectual culture in northern Italy, […]
Our daughter found herself trapped in a large freezer once. Fortunately, her cell phone saved her from a slow, agonizing death! Actually, she was doing a promotion at a trade show and the freezer was supposed to have a safety mechanism to prevent the door locking. Just the thought of this incident makes H3 shiver! […]
“If you wish to design and build a cathedral, you’d better know some mathematics. The application of mathematics has been central to the design and execution of art and architecture from the Classical era through the Middle Ages and still today. The renown of the Greek prescriptive sculptural instructions, the Canon of Polykleitos, attests to […]
Michael Wallus didn’t take a direct path to winning a presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. “I was not the kid who was good at math,” Wallus, an elementary math coordinator for Minneapolis Public Schools said after his award was announced last week. “Fractions rolled around and it didn’t make sense to me.” He […]
Net Texts, the free content management platform for open educational resources(OER) is partnering with Wolfram to provide access to online math practice problems through the Wolfram Problem Generator. This exciting partnership will help classroom learning via a flexible learning space. Note: free sign up is required for access
