Category Archives: Math in Pop Culture

Über-Geekery

If you blog using WordPress, you may have heard of Jetpack. WordPress’ website says, Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. It provides such capabilities as Subscriptions, Sharing, Statistics, Contact Forms, … Continue reading

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Should we Trust Numbers that Much?

Nowadays, if one reads an article from a newspaper or a magazine, it is very likely there will be mention of some statistics, whether about the percentage of Americans that favor a candidate, of students that claim to be satisfied … Continue reading

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Hunger Games

The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn’t mattered. With the movie release yesterday, I’m sure many of you have heard of The Hunger Games. I had never read the books, but I decided to start the … Continue reading

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NUMB3RS

Lately I have been watching the CBS show NUMB3RS. I came across an interesting website with information regarding the math used in the episodes. It can be found at http://numb3rs.wolfram.com/season6.html. (Thinking about the math behind the show makes me feel … Continue reading

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Should Math Be Taught in Schools?

One of my professors (Dr. Autin) posted the following video on her Facebook page. The video gave me a good chuckle. Perhaps some people really do have this attitude towards math. Does anyone experience attitudes like this in their daily … Continue reading

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