Actually, my theoretical answer to this theoretical question is both “Yes” and “No”, but since I have to take sides, I randomly chose “Yes”. Just as you cannot extract something out of nothing, so also, you cannot divide something with…
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Pi Day is celebrated the last day of the second week in March because March 14 is the third month fourteenth day of the year and 3.14 is the most common approximation of pi. It was discovered by Archimedes of…
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Fractions can be difficult to work with since they are intimidating and have their own set of rules. Many students struggle in math classes because they do not have a good grasp on fractions. It takes a while for it…
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Division by 0… is a very harsh debate unto which should be interpreted as a very real possibility. Is it impossible, well, let’s see. Lets rule out the already “well, it’s an unimaginable idea,” along with, “it’s not a real…
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The value of a teaching method is determined by the individual learner. Too often a new or different teaching technique is espoused as superior to others. I am a fan of manipulatives, having successfully used them with a number of…
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It is arguable that mathematicians possess the most intricate minds on Earth. Concepts that cause the “average Joe-on-the-street” to stagger at their importance are topics for the water cooler among mathematicians. The Poincare’ Conjecture is just such a topic. The…
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To this day, mathematics and architecture are close companions. An architect must understand his building materials and environment, and in the modern age such understanding is invariably measured in quantifiable terms. However, ancient structures also deliberately embedded basic mathematical principle…
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Integers are real numbers that can be expressed without a fraction or decimal. Real numbers are part of the complex numbers, which include the imaginary numbers. The square root of a negative number is called an imaginary number. The natural…
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Solving a linear system is to find a point where two linear question intercept, there are two methods; one by substitution and one by elimination, so which method proves to be the more efficient and more easily done in a…
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Henri Poincaré (French mathematician, 1854 – 1912) posed the question in 1904 whether any three dimensional surface with a few specific properties was in some mathematical sense equivalent to the three dimensional sphere. Poincaré’s famous conjecture is an excellent example…
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