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

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

July 28, 2017 — General Knowledge, Mathematics

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

July 14, 2017 — General Knowledge, Mathematics

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

June 30, 2017 — General Knowledge, Mathematics

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 […]
$Mathematics explains how lizards get their patterns$

Mathematics explains how lizards get their patterns

April 28, 2017 — General Knowledge, Mathematics

Via ZME Science : When you think about math, it often seems like an abstract concept that doesn’t connect to the real world. Actually, some patterns in animals can be explained by mathematical equations. Turing equations explain how many animals get certain coloured stripes or spots on a cellular level. The ocellated lizard’s (Timon lepidus) scale colours do not follow the Turing equations and are instead determined by the colour of their neighbouring cell. However, it […]
Finding Beauty in Math

April 10, 2017 — General Knowledge, Mathematics

Via NC State University : Many see math as a logic-based activity and art solely as a creative pursuit — a characterization that seemingly puts them at odds. But for Radmila Sazdanović, math and art go hand in hand. Sazdanović, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, studies low-dimensional and algebraic topology. Topology, the study of shapes and their essential features, has applications in engineering, big-data analysis and other areas, and two researchers won […]
Mathematicians write a formula to describe waves

March 3, 2016 — Mathematics

Via Futurity : A new paper builds on centuries of work to use math to describe waves—both of light and of water. One of the great joys in mathematics is the ability to use it to describe phenomena seen in the physical world, says University at Buffalo mathematician Gino Biondini. The work by Biondini and postdoctoral researcher Dionyssios Mantzavinos explores what happens when a regular wave pattern has small irregularities, a question that scientists have been […]
Statistician uses mathematics to predict Oscar winners

February 29, 2016 — Mathematics

Via CNBC : Looking to win that Oscar office pool? Ben Zauzmer might be able to help. The recent Harvard grad and professional Oscar predictor for The Hollywood Reporter has correctly picked at least 75 percent of the award show’s categories each year since 2012. Last year, he predicted 85 percent of the winners. How? Mathematics, or as he calls it, “Oscarlytics.” An avid fan of statistics and film, Zauzmer collected massive amounts of data about […]
Mathematical strategy

October 26, 2015 — Advice, Career, General Knowledge, Mathematics

Via The Tribune : From ecological modeling to electromagnetic theory, from robotics to meteorology, areas of investigation in Applied Mathematics are diverse Usha Albuquerque Mathematics isn’t just about crunching numbers, but is used to solve problems in possibly every work environment. Mathematics is utilised in almost every discipline of science, engineering, technology and industry. In today’s data-driven world there are new application areas for mathematics being discovered every day and established techniques are being applied in […]
Making sense of mathematics

May 28, 2015 — General Knowledge, Mathematics

Via OUPblog : Mathematics is used in increasingly sophisticated ways in modern society, explicitly by experts who develop applications and implicitly by the general public who use technological devices. As each of us is taught a broad curriculum in school and then focuses on particular specialisms in our adult life, it is useful to ask the question ‘what does it mean to make sense of mathematics?’. Each of us will have personal needs to make sense […]
$6 Tips to Improve Math Learning thru Positive and Precise Math Talk$

6 Tips to Improve Math Learning thru Positive and Precise Math Talk

April 13, 2015 — General Knowledge, Mathematics

Via LinkedIn : Do you hate math? Does talk of x and square roots make your head hurt? You may answer yes and yes. It’s ok. But can you whisper it so the kids won’t hear you? Seriously. This kind of negative math talk has become a badge of honor in American society. And it has seeped into our classrooms and now our kids and our teachers think it’s OK to hate math too. Not just […]