Important update, Jan. 17 at 18:00 UTC: There have been a lot of objections raised about the video mentioned below and the way I describe the math therein. It’s more than I can simply add or update ...
Summary The celebrated isoperimetric theorem says that the circle provides the least-perimeter way to enclose a given area. In this note we discuss a generalization which moves the isoperimetric ...
In this chapter, we look beyond the whole numbers at other numbers that are included in school mathematics in grades pre-K to 8, particularly in the upper grades. We first look at the rational numbers ...