Mathematics When teaching mathematics, it is important to give the students an objective so they will see clearly what they are doing. It is also important to use different strategies to show or come up with the objective. This paper will show some examples of this. One objective is problem solving. Problem solving is a very important part of mathematical learning. It engages stude

Gottfried Leibniz GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ The mathematician that I chose to write about is Gottfried Leibniz. He was a master of his field and wasn’t really highly respected. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born on July 1( June 21, old style), 1646 in Leipzig, Germany. “Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had a deep conviction that all mathematical and scientific concepts could be derived from lo

Discrete Mathmatics MATHEMATICS IN A BICYCLE The mathematics of a bicycle can be broken down into three can be broken down into three basic types. The design of the frame, deals mainly with geometry. The size of the wheels and the distance they cover deals with multiplication. The gear ratios are found by division. Basically, without the knowledge of mathematics the bicycle would have

Fibonnaci Sequence Fibonacci Sequence In the 13th century A.D. Leonard Fibonacci introduced Liber abaci, which means “The Book of calculations.” Fibonacci was best known for a series of numbers which were introduced in Liber abaci, and later named the Fibonacci sequence in his honor. The sequence begins with 0 and 1. After that, use the simple rule: Add the last two numbers togeth

Gupta Truth 5.1 Introduction This section introduces the liar paradox and shows how it leads to seemingly absurd conclusions. These conclusions illustrate that the concept of truth may be problematic. A problem occurs when standard Tarski correspondence biconditionals (which are usually given as the paradigm scheme of what it means for something to be true) produce contradictions in

Infinity Infinity Most everyone is familiar with the infinity symbol, the one that looks like the number eight tipped over on its side. Infinity sometimes crops up in everyday speech as a superlative form of the word “many”. But how many is “infinitely many”' How big is infinity' Does infinity really exist' You can't count to infinity. Yet we are comfortable with the idea that t

Mathematical Olimpiad Mathematical Olympiad The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) was first held in Romania in 1959. This World Championship Mathematics Competition held for high school students began with only seven countries and has now presently grown to over eighty countries from five continents. This is has grown to be an annual event and a variety of countries inc

Math In Everyday Life Through the years, and probably through the centuries, teachers have struggled to make math meaningful by providing students with problems and examples demonstrating its applications in everyday life. As this classic joke shows, some strategies are more successful -- and more meaningful -- than others! Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumb

Math Word Count: 729 Math is an essential asset in the business world. Without mathematics businesses wouldn’t be able to operate effectively. In order to run a restaurant math plays an important role in a lot of different areas. For instance the items on the menu may change due to the way it sells. Bookkeeping and math allow you to both figures out what i

Babylonian Mathamatics The Babylonians lived in Mesopotamia, a plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This region had been where the Sumerians flourished before 3500 BC. This advanced civilization built cities and had the knowledge of irrigation systems, legal systems, even postal service. Around 2300 BC the Akkadians invaded the area and joined the Sumerian culture with there ow

Mayan Number System Jeremy Math Report Mayan Math In order to examine the Mayan number system you must first know that our number system is a 10 base number system. This means that things are counted by 10; we start 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. From there it goes 11, which is "1" repeated, so it starts over again there until 19, then at 20 everythi

Metric The Metric System If you go to buy carpet that costs $10 a yard and you need 100 square feet, could you figure out how much it will cost' Which is more, 2 quarts, 5 pints or 36 fl oz' How many pints are in a gallon' How many pounds equal 200 ounces' Which drill is larger, the 13/64, the 1/4 or the 5/32' If you have a problem figuring the answers to these questions, then your prob

Elliptic Functions The terminology for elliptic integrals and functions has changed during their investigation. What were originally called elliptic functions are now called elliptic integrals and the term elliptic functions reserved for a different idea. We will therefore use modern terminology throughout this article to avoid confusion. It is important to understand how mathematician

Minimal Spanning Tree Uses Minimal Spanning Tree Paper Minimal spanning trees are extremely useful in today’s workplace. Having multiple uses makes a minimal spanning tree an optimal choice in many situations where objects need to be connected with electricity, or a power source. One situation which comes to mind first in which a minimal spanning tree would be optimal would be if an

NIELS HENRIK ABEL Abel, Niels Henrik Abel, is a famous Norwegian mathematician. Abel was a pioneer in the development of several branches of modern mathematics. “Abel was one of the innovators in the field of elliptic functions, discoverer of Abelian functions and one of the leaders in the use of rigor in mathematics.” (www.shu.edu) Many famous mathematicians (some of whom I will men

Heron Of Alexandria Heron of Alexandria By: Mark Carson Another worker in applied mathematics belonging to the period under consideration was Heron of Alexandria. His much disputed date, with possibilities ranging from 150 BC to 250 AD, has recently been plausibly placed in the second half of the first century AD. His works on mathematical and physical subjects are so numerous a

Math Facts I believe that for students to be successful in math it is imperative for teachers to explain how the answers to the facts turn out as they do. However, the bottom line is, to be successful in math students have got to know their basic facts. Little time is spent in the classroom reviewing the basic facts and that is the basis for much of the math computation that we do.

Pappus Of Alexandria Pappus of Alexandria. Pappus, regarded as an important Greek mathematician, was born in Alexandria in Egypt. His interest in mathematics is said to have began from when he observed a solar eclipse on October 18, 320 and then since has focused his work on geometry. Everything associated with Pappus mathematical mind was included in the collection of books he wrote

Linear Regression Regression Analysis can be identified as providing a “best-fit” mathematical equation for the values of the two variables that you chose to analyze. From this we get two types of analysis, one being Simple Linear Regression Analysis, which we have been working with. This type of analysis can be defined as a regression model that uses one independent variable to explai

Gambling The casino operators know the laws of probability very well. They know, for example, the odds against getting any one of four possible Royal Flushes in a hand of poker are 649,739 to 1; they are aware that the odds of drawing any one of 624 possible hands of - four of a kind, that is four 2’s, four 10’s, etc., are 4,164 to 1; that in a roll of two die, the odds against a single

Pi Number A little known verse in the bible reads “And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other; it was round all about, and his height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about (I Kings 7, 23).” This passage from the bible demonstrates the ancient nature of the irrational number pi. Pi in fact is mentioned in a number of verses throughout t

Practical Application Of Statistics The purpose of statistics is to enable the people and the organization to manage variation better: To identify sources of variation, and continually reduce process variation, to improve value provided to the customers of that organization. This means improving the ability of all key processes of the organization to serve the customer Mean, mode, and m

Pythagoreanism Numbers play a large part in our everyday lives, from the time we get up, how long we cook our food, the distances we travel, and other such aspects, many of which we take for granted. A scholar who played a large part in the way we view certain numbers and objects people use regularly is Pythagoras. Pythagoras was a philosopher, medical practitioner, astro

Egyptian Math Egyptian Math The use of organized mathematics in Egypt has been dated back to the third millennium BC. Egyptian mathematics was dominated by arithmetic, with an emphasis on measurement and calculation in geometry. With their vast knowledge of geometry, they were able to correctly calculate the areas of triangles, rectangles, and trapezoids and the volumes of figures

Claudius Ptolemy Cultural Background Claudius Ptolemy was born about 85 A.D. in Egypt and died about 165 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt. He did his major works in Alexandria, which was the center of Greek learning. His name Claudius Ptolemy, is a mixture of the Greek Egyptian ‘Ptolemy’ and the Roman ‘Claudius’. This would indicate that he was a descendant from a Greek family living in Eg

Steve Hawking Dr. Stephen Hawking has been considered to be more brilliant then Einstein. Dr. Hawking was born on January 8 1942 in Oxford, England on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. Is this a coincidence' After his studies at St. Albans School, he attended University College, Oxford. He wanted to study Mathematics, but because it was unavailable at Oxford, he concentrated on P

Statistics Introduction The purpose of our research question was to see if people could tell the difference between a low fat cake and a traditional (by the back of the box) cake. The low fat cake consisted of applesauce instead of oil in the traditional cake. The low fat cake was placed into pink cupcake wrappers and the traditional cake into blue cupcake wrappers. When we gathered ou

The Federal Theatre Project The Federal Theatre Project During the 1930’s, at the height of the depression-era, many Americans found themselves out of work and desperate for a paycheck. With the nation’s economy still in the recovery stages from the 1929 Stock Market crash, the government was forced to create a number of public works projects. Those projects were outlined in Presid

The History Of Magic Squares Very little is known about the origin of magic squares. Next to nothing is known about the movement of the idea of a magic square before about 1300 AD. Three cultures are known to have created magic squares, the Chinese, the Indian, and the Arabic. In each culture they were viewed as having supernatural properties. The first magic square in history was cr

The Imaginary Number System The Imaginary Number System: Is it Really Imaginary' Imaginary numbers are just as real as real numbers. Presumably one would think that this number system does not exist at all. To the early mathematicians, it was puzzling to think that there existed less than zero of anything. Therefore, they could not fathom their solutions to equations when it came