The Lost Math Lessons

As a high school math teacher, I often run across or develop math ideas that are not taught in a typical math curriculum. Here are some of those ideas.

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Saturday, May 7, 2016

How to Find the Next Largest Known Prime

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is offering a $150,000 cash prize “to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number w...

Proof for the Lucas-Lehmer Primality Test

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The Lucas-Lehmer primality test states that for the recursive sequence s 0 = 4 and s n = s n-1 2 – 2, and for all p > 2, s p-2 is di...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Using Your Computer to Calculate Pi

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On March 21, 2015, Rajveer Meena recited 70,000 digits of pi from memory in just under 10 hours in Vellore, India, for the Guinness World R...
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