It is well known by all math students that is an irrational number. This means in simple English that its decimal form, which begins 3.141592…, goes on forever without any repeating blocks of digits. To celebrate Pi Day this year – March 14, or 3/14 – we propose the following problem. Beginning with the “decimal” [...]
The history of the measurement of Time is indeed an interesting one. Recently I found a website that discusses this topic which is called horology (the study of time). Appropriately the website’s name is called http://www.horology.com/horology/ However five years ago I wrote up this little activity about Time for my pre-algebra students. I called it appropriately: [...]
Many years ago I read some interesting articles in a British school mathematics journal about the various patterns that can be found in the decimal expansions of repeating decimal forms of certain rational numbers [aka fractions]. So I began my own investigation of this topic to see what I could discover on my own. Below [...]