@MrsTangmath
 Berwyn, pa
Joined September 2013
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I remember when I learned the difference between a parabola and a catenary curve. A hanging chain is a catenary but the curve of a suspension bridge’s cable is a parabola. #conic #MathPhoto21
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Bike lane markings look like circles from a distance but are actually ellipses up close. #conic #MathPhoto21
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Replying to @MrsTangmath
Sydney Harbour Bridge parabolas!! #mathphoto21
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Room Rater Historic Skype Rooms. Pioneer. Pirate flag. We honor her 10/10 #GraceHopper @USNHistory
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Raise your hand if you know that Toronto is in Canada and not in the United States.
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This Devil's Chessboard puzzle has been making the rounds. Just learned of it from @fjmubeen. It's astounding:the flip of one coin among 64 randomly flipped coins can impart enough information to reveal location of a secretly favored coin! @GlobalMathProj gdaymath.com/lessons/explodi…
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Rustin Cross Country Good Luck to Sophia Piccone this weekend at the PIAA Cross Country State Championships in Hershey, PA! GO RUSTIN!!
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A colleague just sent me this. Made from r = cos(ntheta / d). Look at it. It’s freakin awesome.
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Pringles commercial alleges 318,000 flavor stack combinations. So of course I need to rewind the commercial and start doing the math. See you after the game. #statschat
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mtang retweeted
NCTM@NCTM23 Nov 2018
We'd share a Fibonacci joke, but it'd probably be as bad as the last two you heard combined. Anyways, happy Fibonacci Day from NCTM!
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Here’s one for your math bulletin board @tangmath
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Immigration in the United States visualized as rings of tree trunk flowingdata.com/2018/07/05/i…
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AP Computer Science Principles “Create” task: 11% of students earned all 8/8 pts possible; 19% earned 7 pts; 20%: 6 pts; 16%: 5 pts; 13%: 4 pts; 9%: 3 pts; 6%: 2 pts; 4%: 1 pts. 2%: 0 pts.
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AP Computer Science Principles “Explore” task: 25% of students earned all 8/8 pts possible; 24% earned 7 pts; 19%: 6 pts; 13%: 5 pts; 8%: 4 pts; 4%: 3 pts; 3%: 2 pts; 3%: 1 pt. 1%: 0 pts.
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The 2018 AP Computer Science Principles scores: 5: 14.4%; 4: 21.6%; 3: 36.7%; 2: 19.7%; 1: 7.6%. These scores represent another banner year for AP CSP teachers/students; alongside AP Capstone, this was the fastest growing AP course this year, & the % of 4s,5s slightly increased.
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Replying to @MrsTangmath @tangmath
I see we are in the “vertebrate anatomy” part of APBio. Which is convenient since Giberellins is a terrible ship name. – at Pennsylvania, USA
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Maryam Mirzakhani Drew Her Way to Mathematical Greatness nyti.ms/2E7VSaC

Maryam Mirzakhani Drew Her Way to Mathematical Greatness (Published 2017)

She drew her way to mathematical greatness.

nytimes.com
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Replying to @ctangscience @Rustin_tree
Small but mighty, some nice wood shop work this year and tan(gerine) puns
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Countries That Haven't Adopted the Metric System — bit.ly/1FSwte3
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Multi step equation scavenger hunt with Mr Weychert!
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