It seems like solutions to geometry problems always involve right angles:
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Edublog Award Nominees
Here are my nominees for the 2010 Edublog Awards. (The Edublog Awards Homepage)
Best individual blog: James Stanton (http://www.jamestanton.com/)
Best teacher blog: James Stanton (http://www.jamestanton.com/)
Best Individual Tweeter: republicofmath (http://republicofmath.wordpress.com/)
Best resource sharing blog: NYT Learning Network (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/)
Best group blog: NYT Learning Network (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/)
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More Math and Vegetables
This array of Brussell sprouts initially demonstrated that 40 divided by 9 leaves a remainder of 4. But after some re-grouping, this was the result.
They look so much better demonstrating that 8 times 5 is 40!
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Thanksgiving Calculations
Thanks to WolframAlpha, you can easily compute a wealth of nutritional information based on your Thanksgiving intake!
This hypothetical 1129-calorie dinner plate above is not intended to be an accurate representation of my typical Thanksgiving meal. Indeed, this is not even an accurate representation of my first serving at a typical Thanksgiving dinner. These hypothetical portions are meant to be used for educational purposes only.
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Tiling the Plane
An example of tiling the plane with regular hexagons. Well, maybe not the whole plane, but you get the idea.
A valid tiling of the plane means that everything fits together perfectly–no gaps.
A nice simple little exercise is trying to figure out which regular polygons can be used to tile the plane like this. The next step is to allow the use of more than one kind of regular pentagon, and so on.