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12 Useful Math Hacks That They Didn't Teach You In School How the Japanese do math is impressive :o

If You Learn These 9 Simple Tricks, You'll Never Be Bad At Math Again With these 9 simple math tricks, you'll never be bad at math again!

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Wishing everyone a successful finals week.

Making plans to see this.
Math Alive! 2theXtreme.

Exhibition Highlights Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Progress continues to happen.

19th century math tactic gets a makeover -- and yields answers up to 200 times faster A relic from long before the age of supercomputers, the 169-year-old math strategy called the Jacobi iterative method is widely dismissed today as too slow to be useful. But thanks to a curious, numbers-savvy engineering student and his professor, it may soon get a new lease on life.

Traveling overseas. Check this out on jet lag.

'Body hack' app by math researchers shortcuts jet-lag recovery A different kind of jet-lag mobile app released today by mathematicians reveals previously unknown shortcuts that can help travelers snap their internal clocks to new time zones as efficiently as possible.

How children's brains memorize math facts As children learn basic arithmetic, they gradually switch from solving problems by counting on their fingers to pulling facts from memory. The shift comes more easily for some kids than for others, but no one knows why. Now, new brain-imaging research gives the first evidence drawn from a longitudin…

Complicated, yes, but maybe a more fair way to divide rent? Another example of math in real life.

To Divide the Rent, Start With a Triangle An old mathematical proposition, Sperner’s lemma, can be used to resolve thorny modern predicaments fairly.

All the more reason to make sure math homework is done, but socializing is equally important. Interesting read.

New Study Finds That People With Both Math And Social Skills Earn More Money As it turns out, being good at math and having good social skills is a lucrative combination.

Okay, admittedly, not what you want to do with your summer, but you'll thank me in the fall. Don't let last year's knowledge be left with the final bell; consider playing math games, looking at flash cards or find out ways to use math in everyday life this summer.

Good luck with finals!

How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1,000? (only use addition)

Hint: some 8s may be grouped together....

Architecture and Math

Perfect buildings: the maths of modern architecture | plus.maths.org Architecture has in the past done great things for geometry. Together with the need to measure the land they lived on, it was people's need to build their buildings that caused them to first investigate the theory of form and shape. But today, 4500 years after the great pyramids were built in Egypt,…

Wow!

A Couple Spotted Something In The Water, What Happened Next Is Incredible! This video is almost hard to believe. A couple was out at sea on their boat, when they noticed someone swimming past them. It turned out to be a Sea Lion. They stopped to film him, but what happened next is simply remarkable, and as the video states, it’s a once in a 1000 lifetimes [...]