Year: 2012

Year 2012 in Review – The Most Shared Posts

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Starting today until the end of the month, I am going to do a series of posts on the most popular posts this year. I start below with the most shared posts.

  1. 1300 Free K-12 Mathematics Lesson Plans and Activities
  2. 10 Reasons Why Mathematics Teachers Should Blog
  3. 7 Extraordinary Mathematicians You Should Know About
  4. The Mathematics of Christmas Wrapping
  5. Handwrite and Solve Math Equations with Web Equation
  6. 4500+ Engineering and Mathematics Video Lectures
  7. 11 Mathematical Proof Techniques Liberal Arts Majors Should Know
  8. Teaching Math Like a Boss
  9. Happy Pi Day
  10. Gooru: A New Online Learning Site Worth Trying
  11. A Proof that the Vertex Angle Sum of a Pentagram is 180 degrees
  12. The Mathematics of Leap Years Explained

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December 2012 – The Most Popular Posts

High School Mathematics

I am going to allot the next five days for the Year in Review posts, so we will have our Month in Review early. Below are the most shared posts for the month of December 2012.

Enjoy and have fun!

Most Popular Posts

  1. The Mathematics of Christmas Wrapping
  2. MathGraph: An Excellent iPad App for Students
  3. Introduction to Geometric Construction
  4. Origami and Its Surprising and Stunning Applications
  5. The Actual Fermat-Pascal Correspondence
  6. Understanding If Then Statements and Counterexamples
  7. 4 Common Errors in Calculating Expressions with Exponents

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The Mathematics of Christmas Wrapping

Beauty of Math, Math in Real Life

Last year, I shared to you a Christmas song titled the 12 days of Christmaths. Today, I’m going to share to you something more mathematical and a more surprising link between Christmas and mathematics: the mathematics of gift wrapping.

How do you wrap a gift with minimal wastage? Mathematician Sarah Santos has answered the question using the concept of nets and surface area in the video below.

Have a happy holidays and I hope that you have not wrap your gifts yet. Otherwise, you have to do it next year.

Merry Christmas!

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