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  • Africa: Mathematics – Forget Simplicity, the Abstract Is Beautiful – and Important

    Africa: Mathematics – Forget Simplicity, the Abstract Is Beautiful – and Important

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    via all Affrica: Why is mathematics so complicated? It’s a question many students will ask while grappling with a particularly complex calculus problem – and their teachers will probably echo while setting or marking tests. It wasn’t always this way. Many fields of mathematics germinated from the study of real world problems, before the underlying rules and concepts were identified. These rules and concepts were then defined as abstract structures. For instance, algebra, the part of […]

  • Crowded car park? Maths can help you find a space

    Crowded car park? Maths can help you find a space

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    Via ABC News : There are only a handful of shopping days between now and Christmas. If you haven’t done your shopping yet, then you’re likely facing a last-minute shopping trip — along with what seems to be the entire Australian population. When car spaces are at a premium, minor frustrations can escalate into full-blown car park rage. So if you enter a car park at the height of the Christmas rush or during the post-Christmas […]

  • How Mathematics Can Solve Life-Threatening Ailments, By Don

    How Mathematics Can Solve Life-Threatening Ailments, By Don

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    via The Nation : A professor of Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology Minna (FUTMINNA), Usman Abubakar, has demonstrated how mathematical modelling can be used to diagnose of some killer ailments. Abubakar revealed that he had used a mathematical model to study the prognosis of leprosy disease and its deadly effects on human health. He said his study focused on stages when leprosy patients were under treatment and recovery. He said his research also extended […]

  • Let’s Bring Creativity Back to Mathematics

    Let’s Bring Creativity Back to Mathematics

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    via The Volante : As a tutor of mathematics here at USD, it breaks my heart when a student says, “I can do math, I just don’t like it.” I can’t necessarily blame them — I too felt that way once upon a time. The way our education system teaches math is sad. For a country such as the United States to lead the world yet perform so poorly in a crucial skill like math demands […]

  • Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – with Maths

    Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – with Maths

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    via The Conversation : It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th century, happened in India. Mathematics on the Indian subcontinent has a rich history going back over 3,000 years and thrived for centuries before similar advances were made in Europe, with its influence meanwhile spreading to China and the Middle East. As well as giving us […]

  • The Mathematics of Golf

    The Mathematics of Golf

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    via PHYS : (Phys.org)—The official Rules of Golf, which are continually being revised and updated as new equipment emerges, have close ties to mathematics. In many cases, math is used to place limitations on golf equipment, such as restricting the distance the ball will travel, as predicted by mathematical models. The Rules also place limits on a value called the coefficient of restitution, which measures the efficiency of the impact between a club and ball. In […]

  • Do the Math Before ‘Filling Up’ Your Electric Truck

    Do the Math Before ‘Filling Up’ Your Electric Truck

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    via ccj : I’m an outlier. I’m a guy who likes to write and loves math. There’s an old J-School joke about people picking journalism as a major because it has one of the lowest math requirements, but I majored in engineering for three years before changing majors so I have years of pent-up math that I never get to use. With the recent buzz about electric trucks, their potential and their payback I think there’s […]

  • Magic or Maths? Find The Day of The Week For Any Date

    Magic or Maths? Find The Day of The Week For Any Date

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    via Cosmos Magazine : Martin Gardner is the inspiration behind this column. As many readers know, Gardner wrote his own column, called “Mathematical Games”, in Scientific American from 1956 to 1985. It sat squarely within the nexus where recreational mathematics, puzzles, games, magic, art and science intersect. His compiled articles required 14 large volumes to contain them all. Those, and the several dozen other books he wrote in his 95 years, comprise an incredible body of […]

  • Connecting Maths to The Real World

    Connecting Maths to The Real World

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    via Teacher Magazine : As I said in the first article of this series – Lessons from PISA – no matter how you read the results of PISA 2012 in relation to the mathematical skills of our young people, there is a significant number of 15-year-old Australians who do not have access to sufficient numeracy and mathematical skills to be able to cope equitably with life in the 21st Century. The reality is, many children (and […]

  • Making Magic with Mathematics and Mind-Bending Questions

    Making Magic with Mathematics and Mind-Bending Questions

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    via DNA : Launched earlier this month, How to be a Mathemagician? is the third book by 41-year-old Aditi Singhal, who was awarded the title, The Best Memory Trainer, by The India Book of Records. Aditi Singhal and Sudhir Singhal “Magic fascinates everyone. This book will definitely make everyone fall in love with numbers as maths will not remain just a subject anymore,” says Sudhir Singhal, Aditi’s husband, who co-authored the previous two books — How […]

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