Celebrating Pi Day – March 14th

Happy Pi Day Everyone (3.14) get it?

Here is how some math classes celebrate and don’t miss the pi song — it will hang in your brain for sure!  Students participated in special PI Day activities, celebrated the day by singing PI Day songs, and (of course) the traditional  eating of the pies.  Think I’ll go have a piece of pie now just to help celebrate the day.

Pi day is celebrated in math classrooms each year on March 14th

Pi Pics and Links from 2008

Pi Song here >>> (it will echo in your mind!)

Pi Day Handout (word downloadable)

Pi Day: The Other Math Holiday (pdf)

My First Pi day post from 2011 here >>>

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Posted by Sandra Crosnoe 

Finding Gems & Sharing Them

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Mercedes Benz Ad Graphically Illustrates Left Brain – Right Brain Function While Questioning Are you Free?

Thanks to Linda Browning for posting the graphic and Amy Rice for sharing it with me!

My comment:

Everyone uses both sides of the brain; the question is when and how much and recognizing the need for both in ourselves and in each other. It graphically illustrates function while bringing us quickly to the question — Are you free?

Browning Studios: Art by Linda Meyer Browning
This illustration in a Mercedes Benz ad (of all things) really nailed the right-brain/ left-brain functions in this visually exciting illustration!

The ad copy reads:

(Left:) “I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.”

(Right:) “I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.”

More graphics here: http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/2011/02/mercedes-benz-left-right-brain.html

And more here: http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/left-brain-vs-right-brain-advertising/

Original source ad: http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/mercedes_benz_left_brain_right_brain_passion

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Posted by Sandra Crosnoe for Finding Gems & Sharing Them

CrossPosted on Constitutional Liberty Coalition in Arts and Entertainment

 

College Student Explains Obamanomics in less than 2 Minutes — with Pennies!

Recently (editor’s note this video was originally posted in 2009) Obama announced that over the next 90-days he is going to work to cut 100-Million dollars of spending out of the Federal Budget. Click on the link below to see how a 2nd year college student explains Obamanomics in less than 2 minutes.

Uploaded by 10000Pennies on Apr 24, 2009

also here >>> http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/

How much is the $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video imagines the budget as $100 in pennies to provide the answer. For more on the budget, mathematics and political visualizations, follow the author of this video on Twitter: @PoliticalMath

Note: Video is 1 min 38 secs and has 1,559,213 views at time of posting

 

Happy Pi Day 2011

Happy Pi Day Everyone (3.14) get it?

Here is how some math classes celebrate and don’t miss the pi song — it will hang in your brain for sure!

Think I’ll go have a piece of pie now just to help celebrate the day.

Pi day is celebrated in math classrooms each year on March 14th Pi Links 2008 Pi Song here >>> Pi Day Handout (word downloadable) Pi Day: The Other Math Holiday (pdf) Students participated in special PI Day activities, celebrated the day by singing PI Day songs, and (of course) the traditional  eating of the pies.

More great Pi Day Pics here >>>

Fibonacci and the Golden Mean

Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, have spent endless hours over this simple ratio and its properties. But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics.

Special thanks to RepublicMedia.TV for the find and the great new look on their website.

The hand of God and intelligent design is threaded throughout creation for us to see if we will open our eyes~