
Why Is Math So Important?
Many kids ask their math teacher why learning a particular mathematical concept or skill is important. When helping kids out with their homework, many parents may wonder the same thing.
Music And Math: The Genius Of Beethoven
How is it that Beethoven, who is celebrated as one of the most significant composers of all time, wrote many of his most beloved songs while going deaf? The answer lies in the math behind his music. Natalya St. Clair employs the "Moonlight Sonat...
Listen By Numbers: Music And Maths
"Music," wrote the great 17th-century German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, "is the sensation of counting without being aware you were counting." But there is more to this connection than counting. As the French baroque composer Rameau declared ...
10 Amazing Examples Of Architecture Inspired By Mathematics
The link between math and architecture goes back to ancient times, when the two disciplines were virtually indistinguishable. Pyramids and temples were some of the earliest examples of mathematical principles at work...
Sports And Maths
Nate Silver is moving his blog to ESPN. Here are a handful of writers who are doing some Silver-type sports writing already...
Teaching Measurements Through Baking
One of the best ways to teach fractions, measurements, addition, and multiplication to young children is to bake cookies. A favorite recipe to use for teaching math through cooking is a standard chocolate chip cookie recipe; the kind that can be f...
The Math Of Photography
Right now, without moving from your seat or from where you are standing, look at your surroundings. Not just left and right but all the way around to whatever is directly behind you too. What you can see from your single point of view is a viewabl...
Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images
Most of us can’t tell our secant from our cotangent. But the forms are everywhere, and Nikki Graziano wants to help us see them. Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding...