What do pies have to do with math?

“What do pies have to do with math? I looked up ‘pie’ in the math book and couldn’t find it.” This was a frazzled parent talking. It sounds like a cute math joke, but it’s true.
The word is spelled pi. It is a cute Greek letter that stands for a number a little bigger than […]

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Geometry Proofs Made Easy

Remember geometry proofs? For many students, they are the basis of recurring nightmares.
Here is good news; they don’t have to be. Just do them as if you were telling a story. Huh? Bear with me.
If you were telling a story about your trip to a beach, is there any way you would mess things up […]

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