The real award is that you competed. The golden ratio is famous, but maybe more so as an image of a nautilus shell with a rectangle drawn around it than as the actual idea of the ratio it embodies: “A ...
As my first semester of college comes to a close, it is astonishing to look back on all that I’ve learned. However, despite not taking a math class this semester, one thing that I seemed to learn a ...
“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...
Dan Brown’s blockbuster book, “The Da Vinci Code,” already has upset the Catholic church and confounded medieval historians. Now, you can add mathematicians to the list. As the movie version of the ...
Ricky is editorial director for CDW's Tech Mag publications. In the quest to make STEM more interesting, teachers are deploying all kinds of tricks. We’ve seen teachers turn math formulas into catchy ...