Through Math for America, I am part of an on-going collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here:
Test Yourself Math — January 7, 2013
This problem is based on the reported salaries of top hedge fund managers. How many average US household incomes is the yearly salary of the founder of SAC Capital Advisors equivalent to?
I like how this piece of playground equipment is designed to demonstrate some mathematics: the braces are color-coded by degree. For example, the blue braces are vertices of degree 6; the red braces are vertices of degree 5; and the green braces are vertices of degree 4.
The color-coding makes it easy to see the overlap of polygons here, too: around each red vertex is a pentagon, and around each blue vertex is a hexagon.
I’m pretty sure this is a bit of cheat as far as regularity goes, but it’s still a nice piece to play with!
Through Math for America, I am part of an on-going collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here:
Test Yourself Math — January 2, 2013
This question deals with the economics of schools districts that are turning to online learning programs in the face of budget cuts. How far below the state average is the school budget in Manchester, NH, a district that is looking to adopt online learning programs?