Category Archives: Math in Pop Culture

Review: Loving and Hating Mathematics

by Luke Wolcott I recently finished teaching a summer program for advanced middle-schoolers; my job was to expose them to math they wouldn’t normally encounter in school.  Content-wise, this meant things like group theory, diophantine equations, egyptian fractions, elementary number … Continue reading

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Simple Math

by Tyler Clark My mom recently made a sock monkey for me. I was just so excited that I set out on a search to find math related to sock monkeys. Of course, on my way, I got distracted. You … Continue reading

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Math-Art Resources

by Brian Katz If you are looking for some cool math-art, check out the new documentary “Between the Folds”. The math content is a little lite for some classes, but it’s extremely well done and inspirational. It is also quite … Continue reading

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Pop Culture and Math

by Tyler Clark Kareem Carr made a post on the 17th about students hating math. In regards to this, I was watching TV the other day and saw a very disturbing commercial. It was a commercial for the United States … Continue reading

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Four Mathematicians Enter; How Many Will Leave?!

by Kareem Carr In my undergrad days, we used to have a bad science fiction night. I haven’t seen this movie, but I suspect it would probably fit right in. I was just so amused to learn of a movie … Continue reading

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