I’m vacationing this week in sunny Radford, Virginia,and ike most parts of the United States, the metric system is not used here (to mark distances, anyway). But if you cross the border into another part of the world, there’s little
Quick! What’s the formula for finding the circumference of a circle? Do you remember the Pythagorean Theorem? What about the distance formula? If you’re around my age and not a math geek, chances are the answers are “I don’t know,”
Every so often, at around 7:00 p.m., I’ll get a call from someone I know. “I don’t understand my kid’s math homework,” they’ll say. These folks aren’t dumb or bad at math. But almost always, they’ve hit a concept that they