Month: March 2016

The Internet is in a tizzy yet again about the evils of mathematics education. At least Common Core isn’t being demonized quite as front-and-center as in ...

Here’s a fun puzzle (via Brilliant.org): What is the area of the square \(ABCD\)? There may be a simpler approach; my solution wound up being more complic...

I was thinking about the third scenario described in al-Khowarizmi’s al-Jabr: \(x^2 = 3x + 4\). I was curious about the integer solutions of the general p...

First of all, let me get this out of the way: “Hey, you kids! Get off my lawn!” In this post, I comment on the notational shifts from what I was trained in back...

Today’s lesson in my Geometry class was on the use of the geometric mean when finding missing values of right triangles. For every right triangle, two of ...