Pythagorean Triples Made Easy! How Anyone Can Quickly Come Up With Three Numbers Satisfying the Pythagorean Theorem
So, I must admit, I am really geeking out this week over some of my favorite math tricks. It is so much fun to have a community where sharing such things is truly appreciated. And, it is especially fun
My Favorite Hands On Math Experiment - How Cutting Möbius Strips Make for Some Very Surprising Results
#Ahh...the Möbius Strip Or, if you are not necessarily mathematically inclined, essentially the recycling symbol: A Möbius Strip is a surface with one continuous side formed by joining the ends of a
The Steemit Tragedy Of The Commons - Why I Think We Need to Give More Careful Thought To Content Curation
The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common
Fun With Geometry - Why The Midpoints Of The Sides Of Any Quadrilateral Always Form a Parallelogram!
Euclidean Geometry often has many surprising facts that reveal themselves through careful study. This one always has been one of my favorites: Theorem: The quadrilateral formed by joining the consecutive
How Many Applicants Should Actually Be Interviewed Before Making a Hiring Decision? Dates Before Proposing? "The Secretary Problem" Explained!
The "Secretary Problem" - From a bygone era where mathematicians were reinforcing really terrible gender stereotypes in describing a real world situation, we got out of it a new way of modeling