Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

Estimating π with “fake circles” using Python. This short shows how to simulate the geometry, calculate the approximation step by step, and see how accuracy improves as the model gets refined. #Python ...

It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday at Cal State Fullerton and students are revved up. It’s Math Circle time. Math Circle is a Saturday program for students in second through 12th grade, most of whom are ...

Divide the circumference of a baseball by its diameter and you get 3.14. Divide the circumference of Earth by its diameter and you get 3.14. Divide the circumference of a pizza, coin or, well, pie and ...

Ethan Eastwood is graduating from J.L. Isley High School in Halifax this year — at age 16. What’s Ethan’s secret? Participating in Nova Scotia Math Circles, a mathematics outreach program based out of ...

You’re likely familiar with Pi Day, perhaps the most popular of geeky holidays. Hooray. But I’m here to tell you that Pi Day is wrong — or rather, the entire idea of pi as a mathematical concept is ...