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.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Morley’s Miracle

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At the end of the 19 th century, mathematician Frank Morley discovered that the trisectors of each angle of any triangle meet in three new...

Morley’s Miracle (Proof)

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Morley’s Miracle states that the trisectors of each angle of any triangle meet in three new points that form a new triangle that is always ...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Hexagonal Honeycombs

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When bees build honeycombs, they do so in a pattern of tiled hexagons.  They create the borders of the hexagon with wax, leaving hexagonal ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Semiprimes

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Between 1991 and 2007, RSA laboratories were awarding cash prizes to any individual who could factor any number from their published list o...
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...
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