Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Spring Forward: Daylight Savings Time

Did you remember to set your watches ahead today? I still have to set my stove, my radios, and my tall case clock.

The moving chart above is a Volvelle or an early paper rotating analog computer.

Peter Apian, 1495-1552. Astronomicum Caesareum, 1540.
Houghton Library, Harvard University

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Happy Pi Day

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The town of Princeton, NJ goes all out for Pi Day every year. It's for math geeks in celebration of the equation 3.14 and it's also today's date 3/14.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Whole Town of Princeton, NJ Celebrates Pi Day

I hope I remember to attend this affair in 2013!
Click on the link below to play the video. I embedded it but had to turn it off because it played automatically when my blog was opened whether you wanted it to or not! http://princeton.patch.com/articles/video-pi-day-princeton#video-9316131 I wish I had known about this the last weekend. I would have gone to Princeton to see what it Pi Day was all about. It's all about the math equation 3.14 -- remember that from high school? Princeton is the only town that can boast about the math genius Albert Einstein and his 20 year history there. More YouTube videos on this event here.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Vi Bakes Pie to Illustrate Pi is Wrong | Vi Hart Math Girl



I loved math in school through Algebra. After that I was lost. I passed Geometry somehow but never took Trig. The thing I remember most about Geometry was the circle thing. For 10 years of schooling I had been taught that a circle had 360 degrees and now they wanted me to prove it. My attitude was you've been telling me this for years and I believed you. Case closed.

Vi Hart is my new hero. She talks fast, has a wicked sense of humor, and I have no idea what she is talking about.  In this video she is telling us Pi is wrong via making a Pie. 

She's been written up in The New York Times and she has her own YouTube channel

She is a great doodler too. This video is my favorite with Infinity Elephants. Snakes and Graphs is fabulous too. Actually it could be my new favorite.

She has a website for teachers who want to show how cool math can be but the school doesn't allow YouTube in class. Go to vihart.com She's as cute as a button and she's a geek and a popular one at that. Do you love her now? Did you already know about her? Please pass this on to someone you know with kids that are struggling in math class because it can be fun. Especially if you sit next to someone like Vi Hart. Maybe this will be good for home schooling parents too.

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