Provides facts and statistics aboutextreme sports, including wakeboarding, snowboarding, freestyle skiing, skateboarding, BMX, motocross, rock climing, and more, highlighting the role of math in the sports.
Examines the mathematical concepts of symmetry, proportion, perspective, patterns, regularity and simple ratios and their application to music, painting, sculpture and architecture.
Photographs, illustrations, and text describe how math is used to create graphical representations of data while learning about the ecosystem in Denali National Park in south-central Alaska.
A history of developments in mathematics from the geometry of the ancient Greeks to the twentieth-century concept of fractional dimensions, focusing on how these ideas have influenced theories in physics and expanded our understanding of the structure of the universe.
Looks at some of the many ways in which nurses use math on a daily basis to determine how much medicine a patient needs, what a person's vital signs reveal about their health, and more.