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Mathematicians have long been revealing the beauty in the one of nature’s most mysterious numbers.
Pi has an interesting relationship with some other unique constants in mathematics.
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On international Pi Day it’s time to look at Pi’s position in unique formula that’s praised much for its beauty in uniting several mathematical constants.
This “pi plate” shows some of the progress toward finding all the digits of pi.
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On the occasion of Pi Day, a look at the history of calculating the actual, and increasingly exact, value of pi (π).
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And it’s not all down to David Beckham…
Some students will not encounter a trained maths or science teacher until the latter years of secondary school.
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Lack of confidence, negative attitudes and low student participation rates are just a few of the challenges maths and science teachers face.
A confused student might not be leaving a math classroom….
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A new book criticizes how and what American math classes are teaching. Singling out math instruction in this age of high-stakes testing and accountability is unsporting.
It’s a lot of grains of sand, but numbers can get a whole lot bigger….
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Scientific advances – including the recent discovery of gravitational waves – force us to deal with numbers so extreme they’re virtually inconceivable.
The index finger plays a vital role in early learning.
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Tracing over maths problems can enhance students’ learning of more advanced mathematical content and multi-step problems.
The frilly forms of corals and sponges are biological variations of hyperbolic geometry, as seen here on the Great Barrier Reef, near Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
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The magic and wonder of the mathematics of straight lines in curved spaces is best explained when you look to nature for examples.
Primes: here be magic.
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The largest known prime number has been discovered. But what does it all mean?
Aces high.
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You might think statisticians could work out if a player has been cheating – it’s not that simple.
Dividing breast cancer cells.
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Scientists have found that cancer growth follows the same mathematical law that predicts earthquakes.
Changing attitudes: why is it ‘cool’ to be bad at maths?
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You wouldn’t feel so confident about claiming you weren’t good at reading, so why is it okay to be openly negative about mathematics?
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Maths! It can turn poor darts players into slightly better ones.
All dressed up.
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Scientists have used maths to explain why some cats’ fur makes them look like they’re wearing a tuxedo.
The year’s nearly ended, but we’re still not sure how to best fund our universities.
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2013 was the year of Gonski; 2014 the year of higher education reform; 2015 has been the year of … hmmm … wait, what actually happened this year? Just a lot of chat really, with much debate, but little…
Wait, what was that? You lost me.
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A Japanese mathematician says he’s proved a famous unsolved conjecture. The problem is, nobody can understand the solution he’s put forth.
Why are some pages of a book of numbers tables more dog-eared than others?
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The first digits of numbers in a data set aren’t distributed equally. And now you know more than a lot of fraudsters do – and should – when they’re making up their phony numbers.
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Don’t worry – there are only 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 configurations.
General relativity isn’t only a powerfully descriptive theory, but there’s a beauty in its elegance.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity is a triumph of reason and imagination, of art and science, with a profound beauty of its own.