If you are on an Apple device, look for the app called Grapher under the Applications–>Utilities folder. Choose 3D and type in anything that you think will make an interesting graph. You can use the ^ key to make powers. You can also animate your graph to see its shape change. Very cool and very mathematical! […]
“It’s three o’clock. You’re at work, struggling to focus during the afternoon lull. You gaze out of your office window, hoping for some relief, but instead you feel a headache coming on. Flat gray concrete lines the streets, while windows form repetitive glassy intervals in stark brick walls. With monotonous straight lines as far as the […]
Jeff Bezos and his fellow passengers rocketed into space, coinciding with the day in 1969 when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. What an achievement! Get this—a current iPhone seven million times more memory than the guidance computer on Armstrong’s spaceship and over one hundred thousand times its processing power.
Pi is one of the main attractions inside the Secret Garden of Mathematics. Pi is delightful, mysterious, simple, yet profound. Pi contains the name of the person you will marry, where you will live and, perhaps, your favourite song. Share this free ppt with your teacher or with your class. Change it to fit the […]
For some teenagers, dumping maths from their school schedule is something that can’t happen quickly enough. However, new research out of the University of Oxford (see full report here) shows that quitting maths at age 16 may have an adverse effect on brain development, while teens who stick with maths at A-level (Year 12) have […]
A recent BBC article predicted that, if its rate of growth continues, concrete will overtake the total weight of Earth’s biomass sometime around 2040. Try to picture that in the mind’s eye: there is a day approaching soon when there will be a greater weight of concrete on Earth than every single tree in every forest, every fish […]
