PreAlgebra – Writing Project
Cross Curricular Learning: Mathematics and Language Arts
Objective:
The purpose of this assignment is to connect your writing abilities with your mathematical abilities, and then to see how what we are learning in math can apply to a variety of areas in the world. From fashion to engineering, construction to technology, math is everywhere. You may even be surprised.
Task:
- Go to: http://www.ams.org/ams/mathmoments.html
- Skim the plethora of articles and find 5 that strike a chord with you. These may be articles (they are also podcasts) about a career you’re interested in; they may have shown you a connection between math and the real world that surprised you. Be sure to choose articles that make you think, and elicit some sort of reaction.
- Once you have read the article, and understood it, post a comment on the class blog for each of your 5 articles. You have a very strict time frame to respond to all 5 chosen articles. You may not complete more than one comment per day. Spread the work out and manage your time.
- Your posted comment must:
- Be at least one well-organized, well-developed paragraph. Make sure you have a topic sentence, details, and a closing sentence or clincher that wraps it all up.
- Be edited and revised thoroughly. Check and correct all spelling and grammatical errors. This is your best writing. Write as if your English teacher were reading these. No slang. No abbreviations. Standard English. You’re not texting here.
- Be thoughtful. Use all your critical thinking skills to really make connections between math and the world. If you’ve ever wondered why you’re studying this, and/or what’s the point…now is your chance to find the answer.
Evaluation:
- Your 5 blog comments will be graded using an English rubric. Each comment is worth 10 points, for a total of 50 points.
- Writing and critical thinking will be evaluated!
April 28th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Spam can be extremely frustrating, you delete it and the next time you check your inbox, its back! So this is why many people are fighting back, using various new tools. Filters were designed to look for signs in the message that let it know if it is spam, or not. Using the Bayes’ Theorem, the anti-spam tools can adapt with training, so that the filter learns how likely it is that certain words or characteristics are present when a message is spam. Bayes’ Theorem lets the filter calculate information by turning the info around. This is just another way of using old mathematics to fight new technology.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
When i read Bend it like bernoulli i learned that using math can help improve a soccer players kick. Using geometry and other mathmatics you discover what degree to kick the ball so it will increase the speed. Depending on the design of the ball, you can use math to improve the accuracy of your shot. Another thing you can do is use right cauculations to kick the ball from father away and still make it in the goal. Sure you could just kick any shot and have a fifty fifty chance of making it. Why would you want to do that when you can think about soccer in a math equasion and guarantee a goal. This artical shows that you can use math in an every day thing such as soccer.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
How do they forecast the weather? Without mathamatics it would be tough to forecast the weather, because you need math to collect information to calculate approximate solutions to figure out he weather. While figuring it out, you need to take in to account the rotation of the Earth and the perpetual interaction among land sea and air. That info. would be impossible without the help of math. You would also need to know the speed of the clouds and the distance from the clouds to the area to calculate how much time it will take to get there, that is another thing that couldn’t be done without math. That is how math is used in daily life, and without it we wouldn’t know a ton of thing that we need.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Mathematics is required to build a video game. Characters, scenes, and action are built by using math. The math that is required to build the game starts to get harder as the creators progress. Formulas and simple mathematics helps the creators solve their problems easily. Math plays a key part in the creation of video games.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Experimenting with the Heart:
Mathematics makes it possible to study the human heart without actually having a human heart at hand. A scientific model, based on mathematical measurements and equations generated by a computer, makes it possible to study the heart with near exact details; such as muscle fibers, all fluid flows, and the blood flow in and around the heart. What makes it hard to to calculate and solve the equations is the fact that the heart’s exact shape is always changing. The technology and knowledge to experiment on an arificial mathematical heart model makes heart care and precautionary medical care more accurate.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
All five of the responses above are great examples of what I am looking for in this assignment. Thanks!
April 29th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
When I learned Finding Fake Photos I learned that some photos that are taken of stars are not real. The photos are copied and pasted together to make it seem like two stars are hanging out with each other. The way you figure out whether or not the picture is real is by how the sun or light reflects on their faces. Sometimes they will even put the stars on a background, such as a club, when they were really at a park. Lucky for the stars it is hard for the tabloids to get two images the same size that look realistic together. This article teaches people to not believe in what they read in tabloids.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Finding fake photos isn’t as hard as you may think; it just requires a good knowledge of mathematics. Calculus, linear algebra, and statistics are very useful when trying to uncover the truth of the photograph. Many times, when the image has been tampered with, it leaves evidence behind having to do with replacement sizes. Deciphering a tampered photo can be easy; depending on how well you know what to look for and how well the person did with hiding the image. And even though the alterers keep ahead of the picture police, the detectors would be nowhere if it weren’t for math!
April 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Airplane airlines like Southwest and American Airlines would lose lots of money if ti weren’t for math. Plane companies lose money as people board planes. Companies use math like Lorentzian geometry and the random matrix theory to see which kind of method is better. Going from back to front or just letting people on board in any order. They use these math formulas to help see which way of boarding is faster. Also, the plane companies use more mathematics when figuring out if the passengers can load their carry one luggage faster than the attendants. Companies say that letting people on in any order gets the plane off the ground faster. So, math is used everywhere in daily life whether you know it or not.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Targeting Tumors:
Even though treatment of cancerous tumors is a lot better than it used to be, it’s still not perfect. For example, because tumors are not set in stone, they can change. This makes diagnosing and treating a challenge, because they change shape and even location. Math can help doctors locate the tumors. A new area of treatment is virotherapy and it uses mathematic models to discover how to use the viruses to fight cancer. Because they are models, the scientist can come up with numerical outcomes for all the possible changes in the tumor, therefore being more accurate with treatment. Math is helping doctors be more accurate and cure more cancer.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Have you ever wondered how the little “20 Question” toys seem like they could read you mind? They ask you a couple of questions, and then (before you know it) they know exactly what you’re thinking about. Well, those little toys actually use a kind of artificial intelligence to figure out what you are thinking about. After they ask you a bunch of Yes-or-No questions, they seem to read your mind. Well, they use probability based on your answers, and by the time you’ve answered all 20 Questions, they know exactly what your mind is thinking. It’s creepy, but it’s just math.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Though many people think that fighting diseases is just like sticking millions of needles in you, it can really be solved by math. Math has helped fight many recent diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease (United Kingdom) and Chagas (Latin America). Mathematical conclusions have been made by Epidemiologists using mathematical models to find ways to slow dowm the infection rate. This way was “surprisingly simple, yet highly effective” and it did indeed slow and greatly reduce the infection rate of Chagas. As we all know, getting shots is no fun, so why not find a great improvement to slow or stop the disease with just using the brain that you already have?
April 30th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Did you know that in the past 30 years traffic has been getting worse? It’s true, the amount of cars on the road has doubled. If we just buitl more roads it will not help very much. Traffic grows because as cars move forward, the jam moves back because the cars slow down to go the same speed as the traffic. The study of traffic using math is new, but it will help transportation in a big way. There are many variables to analyzing traffic, such as the drivers speed, length of trip, and the time of day. Basically, you can avoid traffic by choosing different routes by predicting if their will be traffic or not.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:55 am
When you read gossip magazines, do you ever think that some of the photos are so outrageous that they seem almost unreal? Well sometimes they are! We can tell by using mathematical techniques. For instance, calculus, linear algebra, and statistics are useful when deciding if the picture was really at that time and place, or just copied. Some people check if the photos are real by breaking down the picture. For instance, they check if the digital color is similar. If the color is not the same, obviously the picture is fake. So the next time you see an outrageous picture in a gossip magazine, use mathematic skills to see if the picture is fact or fiction!
April 30th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Have you ever wanted to run faster or jump higher? Math can actually help you improve your game! Differential equations and vector analysis is used to make you a better player. Velocity and force are examples of vectors. For instance velocity has to do with acceleration and speed, so that will improve your running. It’s amazing how math can be used in so many aspects of your life.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Solving Crimes:
Mathematics and Mathematicians help solve and prevent crimes in many ways. Some ways they help investigators solve serious crimes are by using statistics, combinatorics, and graph theory. For instance, an algorithm accuratly lacated a serial offender’s location from the sites of previous crimes. To back up the algorithm’s accusation, the suspect’s DNA results came back positive. Without the advantage of mathematics, the suspect may not have ever been caught, or proven guilty. This is an example of many reasons why understanding math is so iportant.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Targeting Tumors:
Right when doctors think they have a tumor it suddenly dissapears. Research has gotten better, but not good enough. When tumors change their shape, size, or even location, confusion starts. By use of geometry, differential equations, and integer linear programming helps to destroy tumors without destroying healthy tissues. The doctors use virotherapy which is using certain viruses to “target” the tumors. The mathematical models display how to use the viruses most benificial. If anytime soon you are trying to target your tumor make sure to keep math in mind.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Hey Mr. Stinson!! I misspelled some words on the entry I just did. So here is the real paragraph. Please discard the first one. Thanks!!!!!!
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Solving Crimes:
Mathematics and Mathematicians help solve and prevent crimes in many ways. Some ways they help investigators solve serious crimes are by using statistics, combinatorics, and graph theory. For instance, an algorithm accuratly lacated a serial offender’s location from the sites of previous crimes. To back up the algorithm’s accusation, the suspect’s DNA results came back positive. Without the advantage of mathematics, the suspect may not have ever been caught, or proven guilty. This is an example of the many reasons why understanding math is so important.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Solving Crimes:
When you read solving crimes you learn that the investagators use mathamatics to solve the crimes. The investagators use facts, statistics,combinatorics, and graph theory. First they compare the the DNA in the blood with the DNA at the crime scene. Then once they match the blood at the crime scene with the suspects blood they will arrest the person who commited the crime. “Proving crime does not pay but cheacking your assumtions does.” I Took this qoute from the essay be cause it shows how math is involved with solving crimes. Not only is math involved, but they use science to test the DNA samples. It is interesting how math is involved in almost everything.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
With global warming on the rise (don’t worry I don’t believe in it ), we must find a way to control carbon dioxide! There is one way that we might be able to take it down a notch, while improving energy use and discovering other types of fuels. The way we could control the CO2 is buy burying it, yes, burying it thousands of feet underground or in old unusable reservoirs. Using linear algebra, numerical analysis and partial differential equations, we have come up with models, and small scale experiments to predict what will happen once buried. There is one problem though, it is figuring out how to keep the carbon dioxide from escaping!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Sailing Faster:
It is really intresting how they design boats! there are more than 40 million equations used to build a yacht. But all the work is now usually done on the computer. A boat’s surface is approximated by smaller surfaces that can be manuplated algebraically during the design process.
So when the boat is all made it can go really fast!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Finding Fake Photo’s:
It is really weird how you can just photo shop pictures together so it looks diffrent than what it really is. But Calculus, Linar Algebra, and statistics can help you find which pictures are real, and which ones are fake. Its even says in the paragraphs that “at the end of the day you need math” that is very true, even if you wan to know if the photo’s in magazines are real or fake.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Have you ever heard about a machine having life? Scientists have made amazing improvements in building robots to act like humans. They can greet you, give you directions, clean your floors, and even dance! But all these human-like abilities would not happen without math. It requires complicated algorithms for vision, speech recognition, remembering a person’s name and other human abilities. Human abilities like going into space and doing surgery! Even though scientists say that we are far from making a robot that behaves exactly like a human, advancements in math will get us there someday.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Hey, S Vaupen, you’re not supposed to do more than 1 comment per day.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
How do we know so much about our heart? Well, we make computerized hearts to study them with the knowledge we have. The only way we can do that is with the help of math. We make the computerized hearts with equations from a law made by Hooke, that modeled the geometry of the heart, that represents the muscle fibers of closed curves. There is also equations that state the flow of the fluids in the heart. That is very important to know because it helps us know how the blood flows in the human body. However, because the heart changes consantly it is hard to find the exact solution, but it is close enough. Without mathematics we wouldn’t know as much as we know today about the heart.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Drilling wells to find oil can cost millions of dollars, so drillers rely on different functions of math to find the oil without drilling. Drillers use underground sound waves and nonlinear equations. In fact, the company estimated that the model solves over 250,000 systems a day. one thing is for sure, we will find more oil faster and easier if we improve mathematics.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:18 am
Today, there are many Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) solving crimes all around the world. These CSI workers use math each and every day to solve crimes. For instance, some mathematical fields used by the CSI are statistics, combinatorics, and graph theory. One show that uses all of these mathimatical fields is the popular NUMB3RS. This is a great show as it is based on true crime stories, and how they use math to solve those crimes. Solving crimes is another example of how math is useful all around the world!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am
In solving Sudoku you can use math to solve it in one sweep bucause the solution process is the same. Using complex math that won’t fit here and can’t make head or tail of you can solve, with a computer, and a 1,000 line code program, you can solve a 17 number Sudoku puzzle without erasering a single number faster than all of your buddies.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Nothing is better than a juicy crime to make things exciting. In the short article, “Solving Crimes”, I learned that solving crimes not only takes skill, but math as well. Some of the theories from mathematical fields include statistics, combinatorics, and graphs. A modern television show called “NUMB3RS” shows mathematics being used in action. Next time you try to solve a crime, remember to use math and see how it helps.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Did you ever wonder how the twenty questions game knows the answer seventy five percent of the time. Well it is not psycic. This advanced toy uses a few different types of math to find the correct answer. To discover what your animal, mineral, or veagetable is the game uses probubility, logic, and mathmatical objects. The online version of this game uses a source of artificial intelegence.You would not think this would work, but it does. It is hard to believe that math is even involved with a fun thing, such as a toy.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Have you ever seen a photo in a magazine that has you questioning if it actually happened. You don’t have to wonder anymore, just use math to help you find the truth. Calculus, linear algebra, and statistics are essential in determining if the picture is a fake. A few ways to do this are by checking the digital color similarity or removing the person from the image. Now you can use these techniques to make sure the picture is true.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Experimenting with the heart:
As you should know experimenting with a real human heart is not possible. You might ask yourself, then how did we get so far with knowing of the hearts functions. The answer is mathematical models. By using accurate models we learn the functions of the heart without experimenting for years in the lab. By using Hooke’s law model we can represent muscle fibers. With the use of Navier-Stokes equations we represent blood flow. These equations are almost impossible to find so the answers are generated by a computer. Next time you need to know something about a heart, use mathematical models to figure it out.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:22 pm
You may not know that math is involved in many sports. It helps you improve on your performance. Mostly math would help determine optimum mechanics in a sport. Even geometry could be used for making lines on a baseball field or yardage on a football field. One coach even said,” In God we trust. All others must have data.” Without mathematics we may not be able to play the sports we do today.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Spam is very frustrating. You check your e-mail and when you try and delete it, it just comes back again and again. Many people are fighting back with many new tools including filters that look for telltale signs.Also, by using Bayes’ Theorem, anti-spam tools can adapt with training. Even though people use filters to try and avoid spam, spammers outsmart the filters by hiding the words and intent of their messages. New filters use mathematics to fight spam by being trained to recognize spam over time.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Targeting Tumors:
Though treatment for cancer has gotten better over the past few years, it still isn’t perfected. An example would be that not all cancer will go away, or be slow growing. Some are faster than others and not all have a cure to stop this from happening. This makes diagnosing and treating challenging because they change both shape and location. Math is a big factor of helping doctors locate and destroy tumors. A new treatment called virotherapy uses mathematic models to discover how to use the viruses to fight the battle of cancer. The math we are doing today is helping us get closer to curing cancer.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Did you know that certain galaxies can be as big as 100,000 light years? That’s more than 587,848,216,416,129,785 miles across!!! But, scientists wouldn’t have been able to figure out those measurements without math. Advancements in math (like in computers and algorithms) are used to calculate how big these galaxies are. On top of that, scientists use computers and algorithms to actually make scale models of these galaxies. It all relies on the speed and memory of the computer to make the galaxy models. The computer needs to create an accurate scale model and include all the details in the galaxy. The computers need to be efficient, but computers, algorithms, and galaxy simulations would not exist without advancements in math.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Solving Sudoku:
Solving a sudoku puzzle requires an enormous amount of mathematics. Without math it is impossible, becuase you need count to make sure the numbers are in the correct place. The lowest numbers that you can have in a sudoku puzzle is 17, because anything under that can not have one perfect solution. There are more than 5 BILLION different sudoku puzzles(HOLY COW). That is how math is involved with sudoku.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:34 am
Did you know that planning reconstruction facial surgery uses math? Surgeons use new virtual models which include geomatry, different equations, and numerical analysis. The numerical analysis represents the movement of bone and soft tissue. This helps surgeons and their patients to pick the best choice.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
The game “20 Questions” seems like it has a mind of its own. This tiny, electronic game always seems to know what you’re thinking. It does this by using math. The Yes-No questions have a type of weights on them and that is what is used to determine the answers. The way the weights are used is also like using probability. It can’t really read your mind, it’s just math!
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Spam is becoming a real problem with people who rely on email for businesses and anyone in general. People have figured out ways to block spammers, but spammers seem to find a loophole in the security system and get by with there annoying emails. Using a mathematical result called the Bayes’ Theorem spam blocking tools are able to stop most spam from being emailed to you. Users who create Anti Spam software use a filter that predicts certain words used in a spam message. This is just a new way to use technology against technology.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Have you ever been playing a video game and thought for a second that you were actually at the event. Well game makers make that possible by using mathematics. They use geometry, calculus and linear algebra to position the character and make it move the way you want it to. Most of the characters movement comes from inverse kinematics, which positions the character as you control it. Video games are a lot more complicated than you would think by just playing it instead of creating it.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
When kicking a soccer ball you may notice it somewhat curves in its path to the goal or sometimes another player. This is because of the air flow and pressure of the air surrounding the ball. The bend is usually determined by the position of where the ball was kicked and the structure of a ball. The more like a sphere the ball is, the easier it is to bend. Players don’t need to know how to bend it but it will give them a great advantage on the field.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Who knew space travel needed math to be completed! By using calculus, trigonometry and vector analysis the scientists can find their pathways through space. But most of the mathematics relies on dynamical systems, a wide spread type of math. The calculations are based on the forces between two celestial bodies and their orbits. Some cases have been solved using the mission design. I guess even the journey into the final frontier needs math!
May 4th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
From experience it feels like random boarding such as the way Southwest Airlines does it, seems faster than assigned seating. When everyone is trying to find their assigned seat they move slower than if they picked the first available seat. Also the people with no carry on luggage are much faster than people that have a lot of carry on luggage. It also slows down the boarding process when people can’t lift their own carry on luggage in the over head compartments.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Finding Fake Photos:
What would you do if someone had proof of you being someplace or doing something that wasn’t true? How could they possibly do that? The only lgical explanation is they took a picture of you doing something totally different then what they said you did, and digitally altered it to look like you did something else. Thankfully, mathematics make it possible for these fake pictures be dectected. To the naked eye, the picture may look real, but by using algorithms, forensic scientists can catch these pctures. You would never guess that someone could do so much to a simple picture by using mathematics.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Math is a very useful way to solve crimes. It can pinpoint the exact location of a criminal based on where he/she has committed crimes in the past. This helps detectives figure out where a criminal might commit a crime next. I would have never thought math could be used to solve crimes.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I think it is amazing that this device uses probability and fuzzy logic to determine what you are thinking. It gathers information from people previous answers and input. If people put in the wrong info or answer the yes or no questions incorrectly, it tells you based on many previous answers if you are wrong. The probability of the game guessing what you are thinking is good.
May 4th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
It turns out that finding oil isn’t all guessing games. Costing about 20 million dollars to drill a well, the driller best have more than a guess to find the oil. The drillers mainly rely on mathematical models of reservoirs. The characteristics of the model are determined by sound waves that are aimed underground and from the resulting systems of nonlinear equations. In one day a single company can solve up to or over 250,000 systems. Hopefully somebody can come up with a new solution to finding oil so these prices will finally drop!
May 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
You may not think much about it while your sitting the stuck in traffic, but math plays an important role of deciding if you move or not. Traffic has gotten worse in the last 30 years, yet building new roads is no guarantee of relief. The Queving theory contributed to the understanding of traffic, to which cars move forward while the jam moves backwards. Analyzing traffic requirers many variables and involves chaos theories. Without mathematics we wouldn’t know how to create new roads therefore the streets may be even busier than they are today.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
solving sudoku:
This article explains the problems and question people have about sudoku. The game sudoku is an old latin algebra puzzle. The concept of the games is to use the least amount of squares filled in with numbers and solve for the rest of the squares using strategy, thinking, and algebra. This game is a good waist of time and a real brain twister.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Today spam is becoming a big problem for people who rely on email for their work adn many other people who use email for entertainment. Now, people have figured out ways to block spammers. Using a mathematical result known as the Bayes’ Theorem. The Bayes’ Theorem is a way to block spammers from constantly sending you spam emails. It uses old technology and new technology against each other.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
When you read gossip magazines, have you ever thought in the back of your mind that maybe some of the pictures are too outrageous they almost seem unreal? Well sometimes they are! We can tell by using mathematical techniques. For instance, math such as Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Statistics are very useful when figuring if the picture was really taken at that time or place. Some people break down the photos to check if the photos are real.For instance, if they check the digital color and it is similar or the same anyone would soon determine that the pictures are obviously fake. So think about it, before you think that everything in the “gossip magazine” is real, use your mathematical skills to determine if the photos are real, or fake.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Sudoku is a complex mathematical problem. These puzzles have a strict set of rules. These puzzles are based on many algebraic and statistical math theories. There are over five billion different possible combinations. If a puzzle has only sixteen numbers in it, it is has more than one solution. Any puzzle with seventeen numbers or more has only one solution. Probably the easiest puzzle there is has eighty numbers. Sudoku is a challenging puzzle that requires a lot of math.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
preserving the past:
math has to do with the deterioration of many old monuments because of the increasing amount of air pollution. What happens is that the air pollution combines with water it turns the outer layer of the building into porous gypsum which is very soft and vulnerable. Also, the humidity in the air has been increasing adding to the air pollution making things worse for the old buildings.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
GPS is a very helpful tool for hikers, campers, and drivers to find out where,exactly, they are going. Arithmitec, algebra, and geometry is what makes the GPS work. It is difficult for the GPS to caculate distances more than 100,000 miles away because there are too many errors to reduce. Eventually, GPS will be so accurate that it will be abale to calculate where to go with distances even as far away as 100,000 miles.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Bending Microwaves is an excellent way to make objects apear to disapear. The Equation for invisibility was discovered while researchers were trying to figure out how tumors could escape detection. Another component of this phenominon is metamaterials which can be made to have unusal properties.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I wasn’t finished with the invisiblity one!
Here’s the rest
- The combination of these to things and some complicated formulas allows mathmaticians to render ceretain things invisible.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
How can those little Twenty Question games read your mind? The truth is they don’t they just put probability, logic, and mathematical objects called matrices together. This allows them to determine your animal, vegetable or mineral but offcourse there not always right. In the online version your playing against an AI that can give “weights” to answers Zero being unknown and after each game weights are ajusted. With this information the computer forms a matrix with once more complex mathmatics that allow it to determine your thing.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
You may think that 20 questions is a magical device that can read your mind, but it’s not. The game uses mathematics such as probability and fuzzy logic to determine you guess. It uses feedback loops and weights to learn as it gets more information. The game chooses a question by seeing what objects are still probable and then finding what question that has the most desirable set of weights. Math is important in all sorts of games, but we might not have many of the ming reading games that we have today.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Over the past three decades traffic has been continuosly getting harder to beat. There have been more vehicles on the roads for a longer amount of time. Actuall road space has increased by six percent, but building more roads is not the solution. It turns out that the more roads you build, the worse the traffic can get. The queuing theory and partial differential equations are the reasons we can learn about how traffic works. Analyzing traffic uses a lot of different variables, but the federal report says that the new technology coming into the world should be a great help and change the future.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Reconstructing Faces:
If you were to have facial surgery, would you trust the surgeon to hope he or she does the operation right, or would you rather trust mathematical calculations? Instead of CT-scans that are very expensive, and could only allow one surgical strategy per replica, there are new virtual models that are being used. These virtual models use geometry, partial differential equations, and numerical analysis to show predicted results of the relocating bone and its influence on connecting tissue so you have the option to choose what fits you best. This is just another reason mathematics is so important in our everyday life.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Storing Fingerprints
Storing fingerprints is very hard to do. A new type of mathematics,wavelets, is something that helps get the task done faster and much easier.
Wavelets are a combination of fuctions. And an image is really a funtion that gives the color and depth of each pixel. Who would have ever thought math was involved in fingerprinting?
May 5th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Ready, set, and action! Creating a movie uses lots of math to make it happen. Most things people notice in a movie are characters, position, motion, color and texture in a pixel. Vectors, matrices, and polygonal approximations are used to determine the shade of the pixel. An animator said, “It’s all controlled by math. All those little X, Y’s and Z’s that you had in school suddenly all apply!” Computers wouldn’t be able to calculate if it wern’t for math. That would mean no movies for us. As you can see, math is quite helpful when it comes to films.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
When i read the title “Being a better sport” i thought it was going to be about sportsmanship, imagine my suprise when i find out it is about improving in sports. I learned from this article that math does not only help soccer players, it helps all athletes from track to baseball improve their game. Different sports use different types of math to help with their throw or kick. These different types of math are actually allowing athletes to use their minds and body to go in one swift motion. By using math you should be able to improve in the sport you are participating in. To learn more about how math can improve your game go to http://www.ams.org/ams/mathmoments.html.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Tumors can easily be detected and treated, but doctors would like them to be more accurate in locating and treating them. Since tumors can move places before the operation goes, the doctors can hit a tissue that does not have a tumor. Math helps doctors be more precise on where the tumor is when it moves. Geometry, partial differential equations, and integer linear programming are three areas of mathematics that are used to help process data that is very accurate to allow doctors not to hit another tissue and inflict as much damage as possible on the tumor. Also, math is helping doctors use other viruses to kill off tumors. Math is used by helping people decide the outcomes of what would happen if the doctors used a certain virus on the tumor. Math helps save the lives of people with cancer.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
DNA has in it what is known as the knot theory. Math has a whole lot to explain in this process. Some enzymes slice a strand of DNA at a point in time, goes through the gap, and seals the gash. The knot theory shows how often an enzyme has to act and how long it takes to make a product. This process helps in repairing DNA and guidelines of genes. The theory of knots shows how math can be apart of DNA.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
At the current rate of document writing the world needs faster translators, i.e computers, and in order to translate a sentence from English to Swahili you need complex algorithms probability graph theroy and a database of 1,000,000’s of words in order to get the gist of it right. But you still need numarical ratings and rankings to get it almost right. Computers may get the gist of it and can refine the anwser so it is almost right but human can do it slower and always get the grammar right like for an example: I hate cheese because it is yellow to Japanese and back again it yields: I being yellow hate the cheese. This doesn’t make any sense in the English language but if a human was to do it would be the same because we use grammar not statistics and graph theory.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Have you ever thought how they keep making boats faster and faster, well I certainly have, and I have come to find out that there are you tons of math equations helping the boats go faster. It takes a lot of areodynamics to make a boat to go through water and air, so you use math to get the right design. A boats surface has made by the size of other smaller surfaces so it can be manipulated algebraically for the design process. The smaller surfaces are defined with a process called splines. Splines is made up pieces of polynomials and that is how the smaller pieces are combined and smoothed out so they connect. That could not be done without math.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Did you know the t.v. show NUMB3RS is ony mathematicians solving simple math? Statistics, combinatorics, facts, and a graph are only some of the ways math is used to solve crimes. One time, simply algorithm is how they found a serial offender’s location, based on previous crimes. Who would have known that math is involved in solving crimes?
May 6th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Math is a very good way to solve crimes. Using math to help sovle crimes can help out find the location of where it may have occured. It helps the dectives find out where the crimal could have committed the crime. I did not know that maht was used in so many various ways.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
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May 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Have you ever wanted to run faster or jump higher? Most of you think math can’t help with sports or activities. Turns out your wrong, math actually helps you with all of this! Math terms such as differential equations and vector analysis are used to make you better at the sport or activity you are attempting to do. An example of vectors would be velocity and force. For instance, velocity means speed/acceleration so that will improve your running, and force means a push or pull of any object which will help you with the jumping. Isn’t it amazing that while we are in math class it can help us outside of it too.. i thought it was. =]
May 6th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
This site explains how math has opened a new and trustworthy window to surgery. Surgeons have found a way to make 3-D facial models to help patients undersand what they would look like after surgery. They also use the models to show students and patients how the tissue and bones on the face would move and work. Also surgeons use three-dimensional grids during surgery to properly place the bones and tissues in correct places to create the patients new face. I’m sure in the future math will help doctors invent many helpful and important discoveries.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
using math can help you reconstruct faces. surgona have found a new way to digitaly reconstruct what someone’s face looked like. they use three-dimentional stimulations of facial surgery that involves thousands of computer estemations. thi stakes alot of patience and time, but is actually very acurate.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
When you read entertaining magazines, have you ever thought in the back of your mind that maybe some of the pictures are really amazing they almost seem to be fake? Well the truth is, most are. We can tell by using mathematical techniques. Some people take a good look at the photos to check if the photos are real. Some are but most aren’t. So think about it, before you think that everything in the “magazine” is real, use your brain and think.. someone could have gone in and edited the picture to make is seem so amazing and unreal.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
With gas prices the way they are people say that they are doing all that they can(which is bull). I think that we could do much more, like drill into our oil reserves, which we have a lot of. They say that gas prices could be much higher if they didn’t quit drilling, so I don’t see why they don’t spend the20 million dollars that they say they have to spend to start drilling in a new place to make gas prices lower. Not to mention that they could make their money back in five minutes. By the way, it’s the democrats and liberals fault(damm tree huggers).
May 6th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Mapping the Brain:
Today mathematics are used to map the points on the brain. Mathematics can map our brain as a two dimensional object instead of three dimensional object. The mathematics they use are geometry and topology. Mathematics is used to understand the brain better in certain areas. When you want to learn more about the brain, use mathematics to figure it out!
May 6th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
A thing the size of a yo-yo plays 20 questions with a player and pretends to read the players mind but it is is acutally going to be right 75% of the time. It uses it’s artificial intelegance to ask the player questions and eliminate what answers are not probable and which ones are. It determines what answers are still probable and asks questions that lead to the still probable answers. It has rows and collums of categories and it elliminates the rows and categories as the game goes on.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Deciphering DNA:
Have you ever wondered how scientist know so much about DNA? Well here is you answer, mathematics! By using math, scientists have found how certain enzymes cut a strand of DNA at one point and how often. Knot theory is used in many significant ideas in sciences. When you want to find information on DNA make sure to use you knot theories.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Being an architect takes a lot of work. Not only do they have to design the buildings, they have to actually build them too. Making a building design become a reality takes a lot of thinking. You have to figure out the right proportions and geometry so the building doesn’t collapse. And you have to make the right calculations, such as wall measurements, so that the people inside have enough room. Some buildings like the Sydney Opera House in Australia require many different shapes of many different sizes. Architects have to make complex designs so that everything is perfect for the people inside.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
To exactly map and identify parts of the brain you need to use mathematics. First, map out th
three dimensional brain to a two dimensional brain. Math is then used to map out where folds,points, and depths are located. You need to use geometry(especially spherical geometery), topology, and hyperbolic to distinguash the points. Then, look for correspondences between the brain and the flat brain map that do not mix up angles and points. This is very important to accurate interpretations of the brain. Geometry, corresponding angles, points, and many more math terms are used in mapping and understanding the brain.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Twenty Questions is a game that you could play in a car with your family, or with a little machine that you got a Walgreens. Suppopse you started playing with a little Twenty Question’s game, and you won. The game got so intense that you feel proud that you bet a computer game. In the back of your mind, you wonder how the other 12 times you played it beat you. Well, it wins by math, not by reading your mind. It uses math like probablity and logic. When you answer a question it gets rid of the other options, just like using process of elminination!!
May 6th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
The mathmatics in Vidiogames:
I read this article and I was sort of suprised. I mean I knew there was a lot of math involved but this was outragious! They use a form of math called inverse kinematics to create the characters’ movement. It’s kind of complicated but they have algorims to do the math quickly.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
“Reading Your Mind?”
Have you ever wondered how the device that plays “20 Questions” works? According to the article “Reading Your Mind?”, the device uses the mathematical functions of probability and logic to guess your thoughts. Seventy-five percent of the time, it’s guesses are correct.
If you’ve ever played the game online, you may be interested to know that the “intelligence” behind the game uses weights and feedback loops as it gathers information. The weights are adjusted on each probability as the game ensues, helping the technological brain to choose the best question. The question with the best set of weights is selected, and the human player of the game is once more left wondering how such a device can read its mind.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
“Storing Fingerprints”
Did you know that the FBI’s present fingerprint files consist of 200 terabytes when not compressed? That’s 200,000,000,000,000 bytes! Luckily, wavelets, a new kind of math, accellerate the compression process. Wavelets are combiations of special functions. Since images are no more than functions that give the color and intensity of each pixel, the wavelets not only speed up compression, they also make it routine and less expensive!
May 6th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Sea ice has always been undescribable. Using numerical analysis, and partical differential equations, reseachers have just recently shown how sea ice is similar to some sedimentary rocks in the Earth’s crust. They are very different, however. The drastic changes in pere-ability can have a major effect on measurements by satilite. And a satilite, we know, provides information on the extent and thickness of sea ice. Not only will satilite measures be more reliable because of the results of the sea ice, but will also help us to understand ice on other planets1
May 6th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
“Puting music on the map”
This articol explanes how mathmagishins can take sheet music and make a 3D model of it where one octive chang would change the space between the notes in the 3d model.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Although oragami may seem like something to do for fun, mathematicians have realized that it can be used to solve many modern problems. Oragami methods are being used to fold items such as airbags and space telescopes. Oragami is often used when manufacturers want to make something out of a signle piece of material. Then, they have to figure out if it can be folded and where to fold, and that’s where the oragami comes in. It’s amazing how this hobby can be used for making useful products.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
FINDING OIL:
You would think that finding oil would be really hard if you just picked a random spot and started to drill, because it would. Drilling a single well, not guaranting you will find anything, could cost over twenty million dollars! They find oil by collecting the data from using sound waves beamed underground. They also use a lot of nonlinear equations. Researchers are working hard to come up with better and more reliable ways to find oil through math as energy demands go up.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
becoming a better sport is all about improving your game in baseball and track. It talks about mathmatical equations and how geometry and other types of math can help you improve your throw, motion, or just your athletic ability.I also learned that mathmatics is used in coaching too. coaches have to use theory and math all the time when they’re coaching to make choices for they’re players.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
bending it like bernoulli is about how math can help the kick of your soccer ball. By using topolgy, geometry, and algebra you can increase the speed of your kick therefor improving your shot. the wind that surrounds the ball also has a part in where the ball goes and how fast. The speed of the ball can change the angle of where the ball goes and can dramatically change your shot. depending on what type of surface the soccer ball has you use math to calculate your shot you can have a gaurentee of making it.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
in finding fake photos I found out that a lot of the photos in magazines aren’t really real.sometimes the magazine people use software to put images together. For instance they sometimes put two pictures of two different people togther and say that it was one picture. If you use calculus and other mathmatics you can look at the lighting of the photo and determine whether its two pictures put together or not. You can also use math by looking at the proportions of the stars to tell if they’re the same size or not. you really do need math to figure out everyday stuff!
May 6th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
“Bending It Like Bernoulli”
Have you ever wondered why a soccer ball changes its course halfway through the air? Well, there’s a transition point between smooth and turbulent air flow. This effect is a dramatic change as the ball’s speed decreases through the point (at about 30 miles per hour). The behavior of a ball’s flight path is determined by the way it’s kicked and its surface design. Researchers studying flight trajectories look at details right down to the seams. Some players havelooked at results from facts and it has helped them develop better strategies. If you’re a soccer player, you may want to check this topic out for yourself, too.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
in finding fake photos i learned that most photos os stars taken in magazines aren’t real at all. sometimes the magazine companies use computer software to put pictures together. for example sometimes they take two separate photographs and put them on the same background and call them the same picture because the are on the same piece of paper. well most of the time they are making fake photos and there are ways to find that out. one ways is you can use calculus to see if the lighting is the same. also if the sun is shining both ways on the face something is wrong with the photo. all in all you need math.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
in finding fake photos i learned that most photos os stars taken in magazines aren’t real at all. sometimes the magazine companies use computer software to put pictures together. for example sometimes they take two separate photographs and put them on the same background and call them the same picture because the are on the same piece of paper. well most of the time they are making fake photos and there are ways to find that out. one ways is you can use calculus to see if the lighting is the same. also if the sun is shining both ways on the face something is wrong with the photo. all in all you need math to get through the day.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Bringing robots to life is now a more frequent thing with new technology and mathmatics. Geometry, statistics, differential equations, and linear
algebra are some of the areas of mathematics that allow the robots to preform the tasks that there built to do. We are still a long way from having robots with personalitys but we are making progress in mathmatics and science.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Listening to music used to just mean turn on the Ipod on pick a song, but after reading “Listening To Music” I how complicated it really is. Each sound is represented as a string of 1’s and 0’s, which is called of binary arithmetic. If you scratch a disc just once it obstucts the code of 1’s and 0’s. It also uses a form of trigonometey and caculus by a laser read data at certain points and the CD spins to keep the flow of data continually reading. Now I know ripping a disc isn’t just putting it in the drive and waiting.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Who knew that music was so complicted? In “Listening to Music” by Ken C.Pohlmann, you learn the the mathmatical reasoning in music. The math ranges from Signal Processing to calculus. You also learn that each sound is represented as a string of 1’s and 0’s, which is called binary arithmetic. Also you learn that just one small scratch can obstruct the 1 and 0 code. Now i know that music is more complicated than just turning on an iPod.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Reading your mind?:
personaly, i still don’t understand the works behind the game “20 questions”. Even after reading this article. The article takes you behind the brains of the pocket sized game, and tells you how it figures out the animal, mineral, or food you are thinking of by asking you a series of questions. It is so increadibly confusing, yet i can never stop playing it when i do get the chance.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Deciphering DNA:
Have you ever wondered how scientist know so much about DNA? Well the simple answer here is mathematics! By using math, scientists have discovered how certain enzymes cut a strand of DNA at one point and how often. A theory called Knot is used for many significant ideas in science. When you want to find information containing DNA make sure to use you knot theories.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Solving a sudoku puzzle takes alot of practice and skill in mathematics. To solve a problem you need to first see what numbers you need to put in. If you don’t you might mess up the whole puzzle.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Reading your mind-
The game 20 questions is one game that confuses me the most. Somehow they read your mind, its crazy. How the game works is that you think of an object lets say a zebra, and then they would ask 20 questions that would give them some kind of clue what it is and on the last question they ask is it a…. and about 95% they guess right. I don’t know how thery do it but they do. This game is so much fun its addicting. So i encourage you to play the game because you will truely be amazed on how this game can read your mind instantly.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Pinpointing Style:
mathmatics helps while using your own personal style. Jacson pollok recently used complexity and fractal dimentions. Later, a team examined photos of drawings by using wavelets to quantify attributes of a collection. With those measurements, you can find the real diffrence of the drawings and paintings.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
the finding oil page is a very good example of how modern day people find oil and how they drill it. they use randomized graphs and math equations to solve where the most oil is how how much it will cost to pump it out vs. how much money the oil tycoon will make. if you like oil and math graphs read this article but i learned a lot.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
finding fake photos:
When you read an amazing magazine and you see those beautiful pictures you might think how can they look that great and not have one blemish or pimple, it might be the make up..it might even be fake. Well your right, there are some very intense technology that you can fix your photo’s to make you look almost perfect. For instence, for school pictures they always say you can fix your photo’s, it shows a guy with pimples and blemishes as the before picture and the after picture makes him loook like her has the perfect face. But he doesn’t thats just a way to make them look like they are almost perfect. So the next time you see a picture in the magazine and they look almost perfect so just know it might be technology and that people aren’t who they look like in the magazines.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
most people don’t know is how long it takes you to board a plane is how much money aircraft companies loose every year. if they had randomized seated and let people get on whenever they could it would save aircraft companyies millions in revenue every year. also the back to front loading technique used today in aircraft boarding is wasting a lot of time while if it was randomized boarding it would take less time for people to load on a plane and get some where, and it would save aircraft companies millions. all this data can also be figured out by a randomized math problem.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
How do people make boats go faster? That is a very good question. I found out that there are many math equations helping boats travel faster. It takes a lot of areodynamics to make a boat go through water and air. That is when you use math to get the right design. A boats surface is made by the size of other smaller surfaces. That is, so it can be manipulated algebraically for the design process. The smaller surfaces are defined with a process called splines. Splines are made up pieces of polynomials. That is how the smaller pieces are combined and smoothed out so that they connect. Without math, this couldn’t have been done.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Playing the Game:
Even though they don’t look like it, video games contain alot of mathematics. You need mathematics for things like how there legs are gonna move. You need mathematics for the buildings and all the characters. You need mathematics for everything video games.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Finding Fake Photos
This article explains how people in the magazine companies make the act ors look so fate. You cant go from having a bunch of pimples to totally pimple free. Its not possible. They take two pictures and crop them together and make them look really not real. Its an invasion of privacy and a big waste of time.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Cancer has been a sad and tragic experience for patients and their loved ones. Doctors have tried to come up with a cure to solve the many types of cancerous diseases but so far there has been no cure discovered. When doctors find tumors of some sort, they try a treatment called radiation. However, by the time they have the treatment, the tumor may have moved. Now doctors have found a way to use math to predict where the tumor might move to. Various types of mathematics have helped doctors figure how to kill the tumor without damaging tissue. Virotherapy has helped by using viruses to kill the cancerous cells.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
todays competitive sailing takes a lot of equations to figure out how much fuild friction and wind are against your boat. alone there are 40 million equations to america’s cup yachts to ensure safety and speed. most test are done on computers to ensure that they are right and that the tests are easier. the boats design is done with algebraic equations to ensure less surface area and if one was wrong it would screw everything up.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Putting Music on the MAp:
THis article explains how new forms of music can be used for math called orbifold. This is really interesting to learn about in a sence of how math can be associated with even music and has a purpose. This article is very interesting in how modern music is very up to date with modern math.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Finding oil:
THe gas prices are so high now we don’t need to go and find more when we have the option of just using electric cars. We would just be ruining the nature and ruining the environment. We don’t have that much of the environment left since the Earth seems to be going through a major effect. But if we just don’t do anything about our oil supple that is putting those companies in danger and that wouldn’t help them either. So I guess there isn’t a way to put both sides of this article to rest.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Have you ever wanted to get rid of those thousands of feet of tape for your projector and instead have it in a compact disc? Well now you can! The process is called compacting where you can store a 10,000 foot film into a disc. What it does is that when you record the thing onto the fulm, when you transfer the film to a disc, the thing compacts it which means that it lowers the quality of the fulm but it makes the file smaller so it can go into smaller things such as a disc. So yay now you can get rid of all of those tapes!
May 7th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
You may not know but forecasting weather requires enormous amounts of data and computation. If you forecast the weather you need to know the temperature, humidity, air presure, and wind speeds. Increases in comuting power have helped improve weather forecasts but math leads to the accuracy of forecasting weather. While more data and better computers are obvious sources of improved forecasting, the not so obvios sources have helped as well.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Many times I am sure you have heard you heart pumping, after a running race, or when you just stop and listen. You may have never had heart problems, but someone you know may have. Math can help scientists work and find out knew things about the human heart. Because they cannot work on real human hearts, they have accurate mathmatical models of the heart. Because the models and the computer can replace years of work in labs, the models of the heart has been very helpful for finding ways to have artiffical valves. In the artifical hearts, they have model blood that flows over the heart. Math can save lives, it may some day save yours.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
The way to make water perform the exact way you want it is a process called Laminar Flow Streams. The math behind this technique proves particles that move parallel move at the same speed. Using this you can make water able to “climb stairs” or “behave like individual marbles.” Knowing how to use water really can make a stunning show.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Have you ever wondered if the pictures in the magazines are real? Well you can find out by using calculas, linear algebra, and statistics, these are especially useful in determinig when a portion of one image has been copied to another or when part of an image has been replaced.”To catch fakers at the end of the day you use math.”
May 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Solving Sudoku:
I’ve always found sudoku puzzles the perfect way to completely activate your mind. After all, they make you think really hard. That’s the reason that I wanted to read this article. Even though it wasn’t quite what I expected, I did learn some interesting things.
Apparently, it doesn’t actually matter if you use numbers or some other kind of symbol in the puzzle. The process that leads to the solution will always remain the same. The puzzles themselves involve abstract algebra and statistics, and are an example of Latin squares.
As for the number of Sudoku games existing, there are billions. However, they are all bound to be very engrossing, and you might even use the same techniques in other aspects of life.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Bringing Robots to Life is about how algibra and mathmaticol logic is helping to bring us closer to to robots that act like humans.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Have you ever seen a picture on a magazine and could tell it was a fake? Well most of them are… You can figure out if these are fakes by using calculus, linear algebra, and statistics which can determine if part of a picture was copied or replaced. Now you know, whenever you see a picture that you think is a fake, USE MATH!
May 7th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Listening to music is about how a CD player reads our music and the diferen ways how to read it.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Mathematics is not just numbers and brute force calculations. Did you know that mathematics is now being used to analyze artists styles and to help determine the identities of the creators of disputed works.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Ever played 20 questions? Have you ever wondered how something the size of a yo-yo can guess exactly what you’re thinking?? Well actually, it’s really not reading your mind, it is using simple math. This device uses mostly probability which finds out exactly what you are thinking.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
“Reading Your Mind” is a short article about a small ball device that appears to be able to read “your” mind. Apparently the ball device uses mathmematical probability to determine your choice of animal, vegetable, or mineral with 75% accuracy. It works by asking a series of 20 questions and using feedback loops and weights to learn about your choice. Answers from you are given weights that form a matrix. The game chooses by mathematically deciding which choices are still probale based on your yes/no answers.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Decifering DNA:
I found it kind of interesting. The article compares knots in a garden hose to our DNA. They do this by explaining the knot theory. The knot theory is related to
DNA repair and gene regulation. It also explains how DNA replicates itself.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Math these days are used in many different sports, and one of these sports include soccer. Some mathematical fields used in soccer are topology, algebra, and geometry. Next, computational fluid dynamics and wind tunnel experiments show that there is a changing point between a smooth and turbulent flow at about 30 mph. Also, the behavior of the ball is determined by its surface and how well it is kicked. To sum it up, you do not need to be a mathematician to play soccer, but knowing where the ball is going with help score goals.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Trying to figure out the circulation and temperatures of the ocean can be a near impossible task, but thanks to some recent devolopments in technology scientists have found some more reliable ways to do it. New mathematics, data, and short-range climate forcasting have made it a lot easier for fishermen and farmers. There are equations to figure out the dynamics of the oceans, but the answers to the problems have not benn found. Researchers use new data to test the models they make from math. In conclusion, we will not be able to understand about the climate until we learn how the ocean works.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Sudoku puzzles are a great way to get your brain thinking. It doesn’t matter if you use numbers or any other kind of symbol in the puzzle. The process that leads to the solution will always remain the same. The puzzles involve algebra and statistics.There are many sudoku games existing. They are a great way to activate your mind and you might even learn techniques that will help you in some situations later in life.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Have you ever tried to simulate a galaxy? It might be hard to get it right because they can be greater than 100,000 light years across and contain hundreds of billions of celestial bodies. Advances in speed and memory in computers have greatly improved models. Algorithms, or the way math is converted into steps that a computer can read and solve, are very important to make accurate galaxy models. These models must be accurate across many scales of distance due to the fact that galaxies are usually part of a cluster or supercluster of galaxies. Because of this far distance, researchers don’t solve the equations numerically, but they use multi-scale algorithms. This technique uses computer power efficiently to give us a peek of the structure of the universe. Thus expanding our universal knowledge.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
When investagators solve crimes, they definately use mathematics. The investagators use statistics, facts, combinatorics, and graph theory. They compare the the DNA in the blood with the DNA at the crime scene first, then once they pair the blood at the crime scene with the suspects blood they will arrest the person who commited the crime. Not only is math involved, but they use science to test the DNA samples. Math is used in almost everything!
May 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
When people bid they use math to help them decide how much they should bid. Math helps researchers learn that inexperienced bidders bid too much on the item. Mathematical modeling, game theory, combinatorics, integer programming, and optimization help researchers study auction formats. Also, people find that the Internet increased the number of items sold at an auction. More maths is used for auction by giving up your seat for a plane and obtaining vouchers. Math is used to determine how many vouchers that person or group receives. As you can see, math is used for bidding and auctioning off items.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Animated movies sometimes seem so realistic. Well, those movies wouldn’t happen without math. Animators take characteristics of real people (like position, motion, color, and texture) to create the animated movie. To give the characters even more life, they use complex computer graphics and special software. This software requires a huge amount of pixels and shapes for each frame of the movie. In fact, each frame of the movie scene takes 2,000,000 pixels and 4,000,000 shapes! And that’s just for one frame! But the computer graphics, software, characteristics, pixels and shapes would be not be possible without math.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Have you ever wondered if the photoes in the magizignens are real? Well in “Finding Fake Photos” you learn how Calculus, Linier Algebra, and Statistics are usefull in fining fake images. For example, say on a magazine cover Jesica Simpson and Chuck Noris are “found” at the beach together you can see if the shadows on thier faces are on diffrent sides. If they are, you have a fake photo.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Dont you hate spam? Well in “Canning Spam” they talk about how a mathematical theroem called Bayes’ Theroem can help use a filter to stop spam. The filter contains special knowlage that looks for words and characteristics to help find spam. There is a flip side to it too. The filter can also look for words and chrecteristics that include spam that you are sending so you dont spread it.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Modeling galaxy is very complicated because galaxys are genrally extremely large and very far away for us so it require state of the art computers and Advanced math/probability. The way few do this is mathematics of a problem is converted
into steps a computer can perform. Another factor we have to keep in mind is that galaxys are effected by outside forces and these have to be accounted for, and then there is the occasional enomally and when you factor it all in your model ends up being massive! The way this is all done is by employing a math strategy called multi-scale algorithms. All of these things combind though still only give us a glimpse of the galaxys.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Have you ever played the game, 20 questions?
Isn’t weird how most of the time it guesses the correct thing you had in mind? Most people think that the game is reading your mind, but really it uses math such as probability and logic. It also uses mathematical objects such as matrices, with this it determines whatever you had in mind 75% of the time. As the game gets more imformation it uses feedback loops and weights to learn more about your object. It chooses each question by probobility and finding which question has the most weights for the remaining objects. Overall, we discover that in reality this game doesn’t really read your mind, instead it all has to do with math.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Dealing with carbon dioxide, is tough, but there is one way that you can handle the problems. You have to bury it thousands of feet underground, into reservoirs. You wouldnt think so , but it takes up the use of mathematics, for this concept. In this concept there is a problem of disposing carbon is relatively new. That worst part of this problem, is that there is thousands of round wells, all over, and could be dangerous.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Reading Your Mind:
The game 20 questions is a devise that can “read your mind” but the truth is it uses mathmatics to get all of the answers. The online game of 20 questions is basically artificial intelligence it uses many numbers to LEARN the answers, so it is not really reading your mind! It uses weights and objects to get the right answer 75% of the time.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
When you were little did you ever get so wrapped up in animated movies that you thought were real? Well, those entertaining movies that keep your kids quiet wouldn’t happen if it weren’t for math. Animators take characteristics of actual people (like position, motion, color, and texture) to create the characters. To give the characters even more life than just a few drawings, they use complex computer graphics and special software. This particular software requires a huge amount of pixels and shapes for each frame of the movie. In fact, each frame of the movie scene takes about 2,000,000 pixels and more than 4,000,000 shapes. That’s just for one frame, imagine all of the frames together. Now that’s some math! Now, do you really think that we would be able to do this if it weren’t for math!?
May 8th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
SOduko:
Solving soduko is easier than you think. The main goal of this game is to only have one of each number in every line. This game takes strategy and good thinking, soduko is one game that keeps you wanting to keep playing. I play htis game a lot and from experience it is a fun game and I can insure you that you will enjoy this game and you will like it just like me and others all around the world.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Finding Fake Photos:
Regardless of how realistic some pictures may seem, some of them are fake. To do this, you just take two separate pictures and photo shop them together. You can do this with almost any pictures and to make it look realistic, they have to have somewhat the same idea of the picture. In the picture you see when you read this article the sun is in two different places and they are on to different beaches. You can’t go from having a bunch of pimples to totally pimple free. It’s almost impossible. The mathematics in this kind of work is really complicated and really hard to grasp if you don’t have a college degree. The math in the photos is really complicated in the sense of having two photos and putting them together into one photo. When I go to the store and look at the magazines I will think about what went into the fake pictures in magazines.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Bringing robots to life:
Robots are the workers of the future. Even though they can only vacumm floors, in the future they will be able to do what humans can do. In the future, we won’t have to do anything, we’ll just let are robots do it.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Pictures sometimes are not what they look like, using photoshop and other tools you can totally distort pictures. Using sight and mathematics you can see what images were added or deleted and figure out what was really there. When you delete something you have to fill it in, when you put something in the number codes will be the same as another part of the image.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
making a splash.
shooting out a serious amount of water takes precise set up and extreme thought processing. the amazing water shows put on for the public are not just an easy tubes that shoot out water, as some may think. the ones who accually set up the shows take hours and sometimes days setting up each tube of water to do a specific thing durring the show on his computer. so next time you come across one of these spectacular shows, i hope you apreciate all the hard work that gets put into them.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Boarding Faster:
When you board a really slow plane you get nervous and you feel tension in your body. There are actually mathematics ways to boarding a plane faster so you don’t feel that tension growing. When you board a plane and you are in free seating you try to get in line really fast so you are in the front and can get off first. When you are in the back you are waiting and waiting for things to happen and they finally start and it seems a lot longer than it is. I strong dislike boarding in the back because flying isn’t one of my favorite things to do. When you fly first class you get to board the plane in the front and you get to get free things to take home. Flying and math are related a lot in the way in monitoring the planes speed, distance, and time. This also has to do with science. Everything in life can be related back to math.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
buying cabon dixoide under ground in unusable reserviors is good for the enviroment but is requires complex algebraic equations. the people who do this use linear equations and algebra and put the carbon dioxide in tinys rock pores under ground and it can last from minutes to centuries. there is only one problem, millions of wells and escape routes for the gas to come out, but researchers are fixing that.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Scientists have worked with math to help discover new ways to help patients. Doctors have finally discovered a way to repair DNA and gene regulation. This discovery is called the knot theory. The knot theory is showed how an enzyme cuts a strand of DNA at one point, pass another part of the strand through the gap, and then seal the cut. The knot theory helps doctors see how long it takes enzymes to make another product.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Defeating Disease:
Math is a very important factor in defeating disease. A new field of math called data mining involves statistics and pattern recognition to find data about the disease you are looking for out of all the millions of pieces of information. Scientists use math to connect changes in the human genome. Thanks to different types of math, Chagas and foot-and-mouth diesase have been slowed down immensely. Math models have done a lot to fight disease.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Investing in stock, I thought, was a risky guessing game, but it turns out it is really planned out and resarched using math. They use math equations called multivariable integrals to estimate the rise and fall of the stock. A method called quasi-Monte Carlo methods use lower descrepencies which make it a simpler equation. So math is an important tool (for a stoke broken).
May 8th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
You may think that you have to be a really good soccer player to be able to bend the ball, but if you understand math then you might be able to do it. The colored “strings” on the soccer ball represent air flow around the ball. The behavior of the ball depends on its surface design and how it is kicked. Recently there was a change from the long-used pentagon-hexagon pattern to the addidas +Teamgeist, yet the shape of the ball stays the same. If we never used math to learn how to bend a soccer ball, the professional soccer p[layers may not be as good as they are today.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Have you ever wanted to look at a heart but don’t want to get all messy? Well you can now use a computer to dissect one. What it does is it maps the heart and then makes fake blood flow through the heart. Since the heart is always changing the computer uses advanced calculations to change the shape approximatly what it would look like when it changes.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Solving Sudoku
May 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Solving Sudoku
Solving sudoku involves lots of mathamatics. Sudoku are examples of latin squares.Most imporantly is the statistics adn abstract algerba, in experimental design.Amazingly enought there are around 5 billion diffenent puzzles made so far.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Translating: From Arabic to Zulu
Being bilingual, I tend to find anything that has to do with languages interesting. Therefore, my eye was immediately caught by the title of this article. The article itself was about computer translation between different languages. The computer uses statistics, probability, and graph theory as well as the knowledge of many different words in order to legibly translate different languages. Of course, all of those words are programmed into the computer in the used languages already. By using numerical measures, one can check the translation, and with the evaluated results, translation tends to be pretty accurate.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Solving Crime
Do you ever watch Law and Order adn wonder how they find the bad guy? DNA samples makes finding and eliminating certain suspects. Stastics, combintrics, and graph theorys are just a few of the mathimatical fields being used to investigate real crimes in every day life.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Playing the game is about how math and algerithems help to difine the movement and actions in video games. For example it is how a chericters leg is positioned when they are running.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
This article explains how math magicians can take sheet music and make a 3D model of it where one octive change would change the space between the notes in the 3d model.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Do you edit your pictures?
Did you know that edidting pictures has a lot to do with dynamics? Actually, editing pictures is using computational fluid dynamics and algorithms. Retouching pictures is basically a development of algorithms that solve partial differential equations to digitally inpaint with little input or effort from the user.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Mathematics,often called the universal language, also forms a bridge between languages. Machine translators use probility, statistics and graph theory in combination with databases of hundreds of millions of words and phrases in many languages to achieve good translations efficiently translating from Arabic to Zulu is a good example.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Over the few hundred years or so we have been finding peices of dinosaur bones,broken statues, and peices of old pots adn pans. Needing the ability to peice thes objects together to gewt the informations about the ancienct civilizations scientists and math matitions had to put together a machine that would scan each peice using geometry, combinatorics and stastics.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Did you know that mathematics helps improve sports performance. Many fields of mathematics are providing legitimate tools that allow athletes to use mind and body to go swifter and higher.Differential equations and vector analysis play important roles in determining optimum merchandise in a sport.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
It’s hot, it’s cold, no wait, it’s windy. Ahh! Just like myself, I bet you get mad when the “weather guys” are wrong. But just think, we have better 3-7 day forcasts than 36 hour forcasts 20 years ago! And it’s all because of math…
To predict the weather well, you must know the tempature, humidity, air pressure, and wind speed at more than one elevation. From the info collected, numerical caculations put out approxament solutions. To use math in the weather, you must take all the collected data and then put it into a formula, and then, find the out come. Next time the “weather guys” are wrong, cut them a little slack, they forcast the weather for your convenance.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Without the mathematics of encryption, no one could shop, pay bills, or conduct businesses securely. Encryption is based on algebraic facts proved centuries ago. The National Institute
of Standards and Technology recently adopted an Advanced Encryption
Standard that will be used for electronic communication in the years to
come. This new standard uses permutations, modular arithmetic, polynomials,
matrices, and finite fields to transmit information freely but securely.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
No matter how complicated the music(or data)from mozert to twsted sisters it is stored on disks using only the number 0 and 1. to do this many different branches of mathematics both advanced andelementary are used at each step of the process.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Experimenting with real human hearts isn’t possible, but experimenting with
accurate mathematical models of the human heart has led to a new understanding
of its complex processes. The fact that the heart’s shape is constantly changing, however, makes the
equations especially hard to solve, and a precise solution to the equation can’t
be found.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
in reading your mind it showes how the divice 20Q’s workes.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Describing The Oceans:
The oceans are the coolest things in the world to me. For one thing they are never exactly the same as the second before. Theres always something new to see in the ocean. And alot of Earth’s animals live in the ocean.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Being A Good Sport:
To be a good sport all you have to do is be nice and courtes to the other team. Don’t brag and rub it in their faces if they lose and you win. Instead, congralute them an tell them good game and that they played well. If your not a good sport, people won’t want to play with you.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Creating Crystals:
To study crystals we need mathmatics and the speed of computers today. To understand crystal formation means a lot to those who make steel,superconducters, and computer chips. I learned heat is a factor of how crystals are formed. I found that when crystals are forming they don’t have set boundries and are constantly changing shape.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Targeting Tumors:
We are lucky! We live in a generation where technological advances make it easier to target tumors. Geometry and of other kinds of mathmatics have contributed greatly. All of this and we still cannot completely rid humankind of tumors. Tumors shift places and change shape making them hard to target. Scientists are expirimenting with a potential helper in getting rid of tumors called virotherapy. Viro therapy means they send viruses fter a tumor.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Finding Oil:
I hate gas prices. Wouldn’t it be awful if they were worse than they already are? Well without the modern technologies they would be. Mathmatical models of oil resovoirs make it easier to find and drill oil. Scientists map sound waves to make these maps saving oil comanys million that they would charge us. This is very good but at some point there won’t be any oil left to find!
May 8th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Even though air and water flow have been studied for a very long time, mathematicians have recently begun to understand the comlicated field of turbulance which is very important to aerodynamics. Math and modern computers have revolutionized aircraft sesign. The Navier-Stokes equation describes fluid flow, but there is not a specific solution to the equation. Mathematicians are verifying hypotheses of turbulence to make the future of aircraft design a lot easier.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Finding oil is getting hard to find. Gas prices would be very high if it weren’t for mathematics. Drillers rely on mathematics to find where oil is and to keep the cost of drilling low. Drilling oil can cost up to 20 million dollars and more. People use sound waves from underground to find the oil reservoirs characteristics. Researchers use statistics to give them models to be more precise and accurate on where oil is. Eventually advances in mathematics will be needed to find an alternate energy source for people to use.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Though some pictures may seem realistic, they can be fake. To make fake pictures, you just take two pictures and photo shop them together. This is possible by almost any picture and they have to have somewhat the same idea of the picture to make it look real. The math in this kind of work is very complicated and really hard to understand if you don’t have a college education. The math in the photos are complicated in the way of having two photos and combining them into one. Now when I look at photos in a magazine or any other source, I will always wonder if it is fake or not.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Facial reconstruction would not be possible with out the help of math. The way that the surgeons tetrahedrons to their advantage is amazing, and the mathematical planning that goes into it. With the old CT scans they were only allowed one replica, now with the grid tetrahedrons helps the surgeons make many different models that are a maximum of a single millimeter of the true result. With out math there wouldn’t be technology.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:58 am
An amazing use of mathematics is in crime solving. In one case, investigators created an algorithm from the sites of previous, similar crimes. Using it, they pinpointed the serial offender’s location. When they used DNA to check all suspects, they found no one and jumped to the conclusion that the mathematical algorithm was wrong. But a tip led them to a deputy whom they hadn’t suspected and he lived in the target area! The math algorithm was useful after all.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:28 am
In finding fake images out you need math and linear algebra calculus and like nearly every thing statistics. But often you don’t need to use all of that complex math, often enough you can use shadows, image quality, and water marks. But of course a skilled photoshopeer could delete all of those so now you have to use algorithms that break the picture apart into tiny pieces, and then you group those small pieces into larger ones and then use more math to find digital color similarity. And remember raptor Jesus went extinct for our sins.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Being A Good Sport:
To be a good sport all you have to do is accpect loosing and don’t talk about other teams. Don’t brag and rub it in their face if they lose, you wouldn’t like that if they did it to you. Instead of doing that, congralute them and say “good game” or whatever. If your not a good sport people will start not wanting to play with you are be on your team.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
making designs a reality:
the famous opera house in sydney australia was designed by a man who was deported and told never to return for his crazy idea that a structure, like the opera house, was possable to even consider building because of its strange yet amazing structure. i myself could not believe the structure was possable to build. yet the people of sydney thought they would try to construct the building just to prove to them selves that it truely was impossable. they structure was built with careful and precise blue prints. sydney begged for the genius man who created the structures plan to return. the man refused and still today he has never returned.
the constructing of this magnifisent opera house really imforced the thinking that “anything is possable if you put your mind to it” into my head. from my experience of being inside of the opera house, the building is more amazing than the outside.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Playing the Game:
Even though they don’t seem like they do, video games contain alot more mathematics than you think. You need mathematics for the movement of each character or whatever else. You need mathematics for the buildings desgin and all the characters dementions. You also need mathematics the technical part of the video games like how many gigbytes and megapixles, only skilled professionals can produce video games.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
being a better sport:
You have a choice to make in life, you can be a basd sport and not be liked by other players or be a better sport and be liked by other players. For example, there was a softball player whose knee blew out before she got to first base so two player from the other team carried her around the field and that ended up beign the girls first home run EVER! Even though the other team lost because of what happened they were okay with it, someone asked them why they did that and they said that their coach said that winning isn’t everything. So i hope you realize that goods sportsman ship is somethi ng that can not only help you in sports but in life. Who would want a bad sportsman as one of their friends or team mate. I recommend that everyone should take this to consideration and be a good sportsman. I insure you that you will find out that this will make a difference.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Have you ever bought a painting knowing if it’s the original? Well now analysts have found a way to tell the difference between originals and imposters. They use a process called wavelets which use modern mathematics. They also use wavelets to test ancient art to see the difference between them. Using this technique can also help you identify the artists by their painting.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Seeing More Clearly:
Astronomers get very angry when they cannot see the stars clearly in their telescope, so usinkg mathmatics can help them to see more clearly. Current technology uses adaptive optics to ajust the turbulence for the atmosphere. Correcting the atmospheric distortion involes using liear algebra, gemometry, and statistics. So using such mathmatical formulas and equations you can make your eyes see clearer through the telescope.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
gas prices are very high, but they would be alot higher, if it wouldnt be for our newest technique. Drilling is very expensive, so drillers rely on math. Now they have simulations to pracitce different equations. Researchers use statistics, to solve the problem.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
being a better sport:
Being a better sport can mean alot of things. “sharing is caring” is one of the many phrases that keep sportsman ship alive.
I liked this article because it showed me that being a better sport.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Drilling oil is a very expensive and difficult process. Because the price of drilling oil is so expensive that they built a new method that uses sound waves and systems of nonlinear equations to detect oil the first time. This method is called reservior simulations. Even after using this method there is still some uncertainty about the exact spot of the oil. But researchers are using statistics to find the oil as closely as possible to where they thought.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Even though the study of cancer and tumors has gotten a lot more advanced, there are still places that doctors would like to get better. For example, doctors have found that tumors can spread, change shape, or move location. One thing doctors can do to try and stay on top of the location of tumors is virotherapy. Virotherapy is when you take viruses and use them to kill the cancerous cells. One form of this is called chemotherapy. Doctors sometimes like to put what they are going o do on a diagram so they know where he cells will go so they can track them. Doctors are getting better every day in the field of cancer.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
For the first time when you were maybe, 8 you saw a really cool water show. I bet you thought that the water just shot up there, and made pretty cool patters. Well, that’s not really the case, in fact, it’s math that does the really cool water shows. Geometry is used to design the overall show, while mathmatics is used to simulate the fluid-partical interactions. Lastly, mathmatical equations are used to create machines to move vavles in certian patterns!
May 9th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Cops can use math to solve cases. There was one case were a man pin pointed a serial offenders location using an algorithm based on the previous location of the crimes he commited.
Cops can use a variety of math based methods such as facts, statistics, combinatorics, and the graph theory. So if you want to make in the criminal justice field you better pass math first.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Have you ever wanted to be able to remember finger prints for solving crime? Well your brain can’t do it and neither can computers when they are uncompressed. If the FbI had all of their pictures of finger prints uncompressed they would take up about 200 terebytes which is 200,000,000,000,000 bytes. What they do to make the pictures take up less space is they have the picture do special functions where it turns into wavelets. The wavelets are easier to retrieve than normal pictures raw.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Finding Fake Photos:
Mathematics is involved in multiple things. Have you ever looked at a picture and noticed something fake about it? Well there are a few types of math that can help you detect a fake photo. These types of math are Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Statistics. If a person is removed from an image and replaced with part of a background, then two different parts of the resulting file will be identical. One problem with this is you dont know the replacements location or size from before. To figure it out, you have to sort the small regions according to their digital color similarities and then moving into larger regions that contain smaller ones. So the next time you see a picture in a gossip magazine that looks odd, you can use these skills to help you.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Spam is very annoying especially if it has a virus attached to it. These annoying messages waste so much time. Luckily computers have a new system that can block out spam completely. There are filters that search for certain words that spam usually contains. There are also filters that “remember” past spam messages so if a spammer tries twice to hack into you it won’t work. SPAMMERS BEWARE!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
People spend money for Mind-Reader and 20 Question games but it is math that they us to determine what you picked. It uses logic and metrices to determine what you picked right 75% of the time. It uses the information to cross out possibilities which is a method called feedback loops. The information makes a matrix and it makes its decision based on the information it got. So if this machine gets it right remeber this information.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
nice way to explain spam, matt
May 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Hmmmmmmm? How do they make lenses for glasses so good? I have always wondered how they make the lenses for glasses, it is puzzling. The truth is that they you mathematics to design their shape to make them perfect. The lenses need to be made with geometry. They are made of two different spheres in one lens. So the curvatures in the two spheres result in distortion, that is reduced by a cylindrical correction. So the designer has to make the transitions from one to another as seamless as possible. The advances in geometry has contributed a ton to the make of better glasses. Without geometry many people wouldn’t be able to see clearly.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
There is a lot of math in solving sudoku. First of all, you need to know abstract algebra, and statistics in experimental design. for counting purposes there are over 5 billion puzzles, but if you find out how to solve sudoku the easy way, you won’t even need an eraser.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
“Putting music on the map”
Everyone says that music and math are closely related. A recent breakthrough in topology from geometry represents chords as points in space called an orbifold which twists back and folds on itself. Pleasing chords lie near the center of the orbifolds. This connection explains why Euclid, the great geometry genius, also wrote a book about music.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Preserving the Past:
“Preserving the Past” deals with the way math is being used to find more affective ways to preserve ancient monuments. By making models that incorporate humidity, pollution in the environment, and temperature, mathematicians are trying to more fully understand the degradation process of the monuments. Although there are a number of complications concerning the modeling of the deterioration, due to changing conditions among the variables, mathematicians make assumptions to simplify the factors. With luck, this hard work will help to maintain some of the world’s most ancient and valuable monuments.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Targeting tumors could be an extremely frustrating thing to deal with if you were a doctor. Many doctors have failed to remove tumors because the pre-operative diagnosis could have failed to help because the tumor moves. Now with doctors able to use integer linear programming helps doctors a ton because it can tell what the tumor will do based on its history of movement. Virotherapy has been being tested on mathematical model to see how the virus that is injected into the cancer reacts to destroy cancer cell. If it weren’t for math we would not have recovering cancer patients.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
The most likely to be the deadliest part of a hurricane is the storm surge. These surges take over wind, water, pressure, and much more. To predict, where a surge will occur, you need to use many mathematical predictions, and equations.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Designing Aircfraft:
Turbulence plays a key role in aerodynamics. Turbulence affecting aircraft is extremely difficult to comprehend. Because of this factor, people have started to use computers and less of wind tunnels in aeronautical design. Mathematicians are now trying to varify two hypotheses that explain turbulence, opening thee flight plan of the 21st century.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Getting a tumor is becoming more and more common, whats also more common is not all of the tumor is removed from the body. The tumor can shift and expand during the span of time between the diagnosis and the operation.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Throughout time scientists have made many advanced robots, but now they have created “human like” robots. These robots can dance vacuum even remember faces and people. By using geometry, statistics, graph theory, differential equations and linear algebra Scientist have made robots more complex than ever. We may be far off from making a robot behave exactly like a human, but we’re getting there.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Creating Crystals:
Studying crystals formation is crucial to the integrity of steel, superconductors, and computer chips as well as understanding snowflakes. Crystals have moving, irregular boundaries while forming. Becuase of this, only numerical solutions can fit with the equations. Orientation affects the formation. For example, crystals growing outward form faster due to heat. Orientation makes solving equations only harder. But we’re still learning more.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Deciphering DNA:
Don’t you hate it when wires get tied in a knot? Well, this is called the knot theory. It appears in DNA, too. Math is abid part in knowinghow DNA functions and replicates. Enzymes cut a part of DNA and seal it with a new product, from time to time. The knot theory gives insight into which one could find out how long it takes enzymes to make the new products. This manipulation is significant in DNA repair and gene regulation. That’s the problem central to the thoery of knots.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Deciphering DNA:
Don’t you hate it when wires get tied in a knot? Well, this is called the knot theory. It appears in DNA, too. Math is a big part in knowing how DNA functions and replicates. Enzymes cut a part of DNA and seal it with a new product, from time to time. The knot theory gives insight into which one could find out how long it takes enzymes to make the new products. This manipulation is significant in DNA repair and gene regulation. That’s the problem central to the thoery of knots.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
mr. stinson,
please ignore the first “Deciphering DNA” paragraph. There were a lot of spelling errors.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Bending it like Bernoulli is a complex mathematical moment that shows how a ball moves when shot. A soccer ball can travel up to 30 miles an hour, and has an unlimited amount of different air flows and directions it can move when kicked(the behavior of a ball all depends on its surface area and how its kicked). To decipher how a ball moves, scientist must use many different complex mathematical procedures, including algebra and topology. All in all, kicking a ball is much more complex than you may think.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Finding and treating tumors of cancer have progressed, but both are still not very precise. For example, tumors can change shape and or location during treatment, making treatment not so exact. One of the only promising cures is virotherapy, a treatment in which doctors use viruses to destroy cancerous cells. To start virotherapy, researchers use mathematical models to discover how to use the viruses most beneficially. Overall, we are progressing on how to treat tumors, and with that information doctors are saving millions of lives each day.
May 10th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Major solar storms were once major hazards/disturbances that could cause millions of people to loose electricity or worse. But now, they are a thing of the past. Through space weather models, satellites, magnetism equations, and fluid flow equations scientists are able to improve our understanding of space and save hundreds of satellites from these devastating storms.
May 10th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Canning Spam
Spam is difficult to control due to spammers cleverly disguising words in their messages, but sophisticated servers use mathematics to identify which words or characteristics are present in other spam messages. Mathematicians continue to work to combat spam, like the security work we have to type to enter these blogs!
May 10th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
past message, I meant to type security word, not work. Oops.
May 10th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
A GPS(Global Positioning System) lets anyone, anywhere pinpoint your location. Mathematics has a lot to do with this. A satellite is used by transmitting signals to the GPS. Even though the basics of a GPS are simple,easy to understand, and easy to make the satellites 10,000 miles away locating the GPS is not easy. The information theory takes away reliable data from weak signals. Also, the math models of the atmosphere explain for the changes of speed when signals travel to earth. Some GPS’s have errors happening all the time. Soon, GPS’s with be so accurate, it will point you inches of where you are instead of a number of meters away. Most of the GPS’s function is from arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. If it was not for math there could not be GPS’s.
May 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Eye-dentifying Yourself:
You may think living in a world without PIN numbers is impossible, but is it? The truth is no, it is possible. By using you eye iris, the world could be different. Because of the many different patterns in the iris, simple mathematics such as wavelets and statistics can be used for identification. When the iris is located it is put in to bits. Finding a relative match is easy because it matches up with a certain persons bits. Next time you enter your PIN number, just remember some day this world could live without them.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Did you know that mathematics is what makes video games realistic and fun? Different types of math such as geometry, calculus, and linear algebra make video games overall more realistic. If math wasn’t used those two dimensional characters and graphics you love would be no more. The characters movement also requires mathematics such as how the character walks, jumps, or, runs. It takes precise calculations and research to figure the exact movements needed to be made. math is very important and is used in everyday things we do that we would never have even thought of.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Have you ever wondered how a game like 20 questions seems to read your mind? many people do think the little toy reads their mind but really it uses math and probability. By using logic the toy can discover your animal, plant,ect. As it asks the questions it stores the information that it “learns” to decide which question to ask next. when its deciding what question to ask it uses weights to form a matrix and then it decides which questions are still probable to be your object. Although it seems like a magic mind reading ball its just a sophisticated toy that uses mathematics.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Through out all sports history, being a good sport is always a good thing. Being a good sport also plays important roles in your social life. Many part of mathematics provide certain tools, that help you be a better sport. Mathematics also improves coaching, in all sports.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Hvae you ever wanted to visit the ruins of an ancient roman town, or a greek temple? According to some scientists ancient buildings are deteriorating much more rapidly because of the increased level of air pollution. Scientists also have to calculate temperature and humidity. The water and pollution combine and gather on the buildings and starts to speed up the decaying process. So go out and see all the ancient buildings you want before they go away.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:12 am
There would not be any realistic video games without mathematics. Geometry, calculus, and linear algebra all help in making video games more realistic. This means characters, scenes, and action looking less two-dimensional. How a character moves is important. If you see someone jump, they don’t look like they are not trying to jump. In video games math is used to show they are doing something to get somewhere. Your legs probably bend when you jump and in a video game you need to see that. Without math, video games would most likely not look realistic and would be boring.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:23 am
A lot of people these days have most likely been to an auction or at least heard of one. In an auction, people bid money and whoever has the largest bid gets whatever they are selling. Many auction formats use mathematical modeling, game theory, combintorics, integer programming, and optimization. By using these math strategies the auctioners do good at the auction.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:31 am
There are crystals found all over the world that are different sizes and shapes. Mathematics and the speed of computers are needed today to create crystals. While the crystals are shaping, they have different shape boundaries that makes numerical solutions to the equations right. One way a crystal forms is by following the principle of a minumum surface area for a fixed volume. As you can see, to be able to make crystals you have to use math.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Sudoku is a game full of mathematics, but the mathematics does not just come with the numbers, it also comes with the many symbols this game contains. There are many ways to solve Sudoku. One way is using logic, which gets the answer correct most of the time. For instance, there are only 17 perfect solutions and anything under that cannot be correct. Yes, Sudoku is usually challenging, but if mathematic skills are used, you may not have to erase during the whole game!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:16 am
In solving the Traveling Salesmen problem you have to find the shortest rout between x number of points and can only visit each town once. This is an NP-complete problem i.e. that it takes for ever to solve, but it very easy to check it solution, and once you solve a one of these NP-complete problems efficiently you can solve them all efficiently. In this traveling salesmen problem computer scientists use graph theory and liner programming in order to solve it near optimal solutions. Even with out knowing the solution scientists can estimate that we are within .00001% optimal solution.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Sudoku is a game with lots of mathematics involved. There are many ways to solve sudoku and there are over 5 billion different puzzles of sudoku. Sudoku is challenging, but if you use mathematics, it will be a lot easier to solve.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Since oil prices are so high, modern oil exploration techniques have found a way to make finding oil easier and cleaner. Drilling a well to get oil may cost up to twenty million dollars, so drillers now rely on mathematics models of reservoirs to choose sites. They collect data from sound waves beamed from underground. The reservoir makes finding oil much easier and can make our country a much cleaner place and might bring our gas prices down.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Bringing Robots to Life is about how algibra and mathmaticol logic is helping to bring us closer to to robots that act like humans. For example the robot might use algibra to agnolig someone or something is there and move around it. or it might use geomitry to find out how it needs to flex its hand to pick something up.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Traffic has been getting worse over the past 30 years. This is mainly because of double the amount of cars are on the road, and physical road space has gone up only six percent. You would think with new roads that there would be less traffic, but traffic is actually increasing each day. Like weather, you can predict what traffic will be like by using variables such as the driver’s speed, length of trip, time of day, and origination point. People did not just look at the roads one day and realize that traffic has gotten worse, people use mathematical ways to notice this. To sum it all up, if we didn’t have mathematics, traffic would be insane, and people would have a really hard time getting around!
May 12th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Are you sick of getting spam every time you check your email? Well people are trying to fix that problem by making new ways for fighting spam. One mathematical way is known as Bayes’ Theorem. As the user checks his or her email each day, they can see which emails are spam, or a important email. The filters learn how to find spam by how the email sounds like and what word choice it uses. It is a powerful tool to use when you get lots of spam. Using mathematics on modern day technology can help one thing little by little.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Playing the game is about how algebra and geometry help to difine the movement and actions in video games. For example it is how a chericters leg is positioned when they are running. Or how it would use algibra to find out how to make the arm look right as it swings a sword through the air.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Bringing robots to life is a very helpful scientific advancement in our society. Geometry , statistics, graph theory, differential equations, and linear algebra are some of the areas of mathematics that we use to bring robots to life. Robots have abilities that we cannot do, like tell what the weather is going to be like on Friday. Abilities like these require algorithms. Improving algorithms will improve the capabilities of robots.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
In reading your mind it talks about how the divice 20Q’s works.The questions that it asks are made to elimanate all the posibilitys acsept one that way it is right 75% of the time.For example when it asks if has for legs it eliminated a lot in one question.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
“Puting music on the map”
This articol explanes how mathmagishins can take sheet music and make a 3D model of it where one octive chang would change the space between the notes in the 3D model.For example a C to a D# a certain amount of space between two points in the 3D model.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Without mathematics, videos games wouldn’t be much fun. Video games would be flat and boring if it wasn’t for geometry, calculus, and linear algebra. Much of a character’s movement involves inverse kinematics. It shapes the body motion of the video game character. using mathematics on video games is a very important part of a video game industry. Without mathematics, video games wouldn’t be so much fun.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
As many people would of already guess, the game Sudoku involves alot of mathematics. the puzzles are examples of latin squares which are important to statistics and abstract algebra. there must be 17 numbers already on a sudoku puzzle in order for it to have a unique solution and there are 5 billion different sudoku puzzles.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Listening to music is about how a CD player reads our music and the diferent ways how to read it. For example the laser reads in a chanel and a scrach or deformity in that chanel will case the CD to skip.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
The mathematics behind designing aircraft are closely linked to those that explain turbulence and the way fluids act at speeds moving over a solid. it has not been able to study the behavior of turbulence and fluids until recently when computers were able to be used to compute complex equations.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Many people have played the game of sudoku, but only a few peole are actually able to figure it out. Solving sudoku has a lot of math included with it. Obviously, it deals with numbers, and they are also examples of Latin squares(important in absract algebra and statistics). The two counting problems of this game are: what is the fewest numbers of filled in square possible for a puzzle, and how many different puzzles are there. These puzzles also depends on group theory and symmetry. So in conclusion, sudoku is a very complicated game.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Electromagnetic disturbances dont usually take on effect us, considering that we are 93 million miles away, but a major solar storm can,produce excruciating consqeunces for satellites, electricity, and communication ways of any sort. In 1989 solar explosions were created from the collapse of a major power grid,which left over six million people in Canada
powerless. Nowadays space weather forecasters have better models in mathematical forms from which they make predictions about solar activity and its effects. The predictions have improved with technology, but without new mathematics and a multiple ammount of the models, even the best computers would be lost in space.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Have you ever heard of a galaxy? Well, galaxies are huge masses of stars, planets, asteroids, and other celestial bodies and are approximately 100,000 light years across; more than a trillion times the size of our sun!! Using high tech computers and much math, scientists are able to see, classify, and discover new galaxies each day.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
In the Artical Finding oil it talks about how much the cost of getting oil out of ground is and how they have improved finding oil. it takes about 20 milllion dollars to dig up the oil but instead of just guessing where the oil is they use mathematics and special eqipment to find wave legths in the ground giving them a better chance at finding oil. with out math every one would just be making guesses at where oil was.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Whenever you play video games, I bet you never think of the fact that you wouldn’t be able to have as much fun the without math. Geometry, calculas and linear algebra help make the characters move and scenes. Math is also used to make actions to look less two dimensional and more realistic. So next time you play games, remember that you wouldn’t be able to play what you play without math.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
in the artical Predicting Storm Surge it talks about how using matematical models used to predict storms can tell people when a hurricane or storm is coming. thanks to these models they have saved many people. if we didnt have these models and math many more people may die.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Movies are based on computers. To make characters , motions, and backgrounds come to life, producers must use computers. Everything you or I can see must be perfect. This includes position, motion, color, and texture. Computer’s do most of it, but all the math must be done by us, its very complex! All in all, producing an animated film or even a regular movie takes a lot of mathematics.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
In the artical Solving crimes it talks about how math can help solve crimes. like in the CBS-TV program NUMB3RS this show uses alot of the same things real life investigators use not all of its real but alot of what they use is real. with out math identity offenders would get away with alot of things and not many criminals would’nt get caught. thats why we need math.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
In The artical Putting Together The Peices it talks about how putting together pices of pottery from thousands of years ago is diffuclut and how math can help making that job esier. the pottery is put in a machine where it then is sccaned and then the machine uses geometry to fit the peices together. thanks to math putting pottery together is alot esier.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Mathematics is a big help to modern day investigators. Without math there would be no determination to where the shooter was when the victim got shot, or how fast the bullet was going after it exited the victim so we can find it. Those are to good examples to show how we need math to solve crimes.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
In the artical Being A Better Sport it talks about how using math can help improve sports preformance. by using math, people can see what makes an athlete faster, stronger, and more flexible. thanks to math athletes have become ten times btter than they used to.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
When you listen to a cd I bet you would never think how complicated it is. A cd has pits in it and therew are only two different layers, it uses o and 1, that means that a cd has many different branches that the laser reads. When you have dust or water on your cd is why it skips because it is a foreign layer that it can not read because the laser only reads two.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Reconstructing Faces-
This article explains how surgens can take one persons face and make it differently in how the external look looks like. Instead of using the oprints that take a lot of money to make thaey use now is MATH which is more cost efficient and easier for the surgens to see. I think that the modern math in this would be extremely hard and complicated in a sense of the outcome of someones face. Thats a lot of presure and a lot of stress to deal with. I think that changing your face is a really bad idea because thats like changing your yourself and you should never change yourself unless you really have too and then only minor.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Who knew that water shows had to do with math. In “Making Splash” they talk about how laminar flow streams help move the water particals move in unicin and at the same speed. Also how geometery is used in the overall design.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Who knew that math had anything to do with sports! In “Being A Better Sport” they tell you how math can be used to improve the viewing and coaching of sports. There are also algorithms which help you to process position and perspective data to help both the teams and the cameras that film them.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
People have used math to help athletes perform better. People have improved uniforms so that people can throw javelins father and so they can do a lot better in their competition. People also use algebra and geometry to mark the lines on the football field. Math is used in every aspect of sports, from uniforms, to goal lines, to the shape of fields. It’s fascinating.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
People believe that traffic is getting worse, and they are right. Even when we create new roads and streets, we are adding to traffic. We are creating more. It allows more people to be on the road and doesn’t spread out the amount of cars that well. Even when we make more and better technology, that just adds to the amount of traffic, because when people make new cars and whatnot, people want to drive them. So if we just made cars that all run like each other, the world would be a better, and less traffic-y place
May 12th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Robots without the technological mathematical advances today would be useless and worthless. Robitics require a lot of intelectual enhanced ability in mathematics and engineering. The robotic engineers have to configure whether or not to give robots certain abilities, and have to evaluate how they will act based upon the rules or guidlines that are imprinted into the machines. Without mathematics in robots they would have no way of artifical inteligence and do things that we wouldnt want them to do
May 12th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Playing the game
Geometry, calculus, and linear algebra make video game characters look more realistic. Character’s movements involve “inverse kinematics” which determines how the angles and lengths of the legs and feet look while running. Fast algorithms help the video game artist draw realistically.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Who would have ever thought that listening to music involves mathematics? I sure wouldn’t have. Topology ( a generalization of geometry) represents musical chords as points in a space called an orbifold, which twists and folds back on itself. This makes music that’s sounds are far apart in one sense yet alike in another. So now everytime you listen to music remember that geometry is being used.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
the device “20-Q” supposedly reads your mind, but in reality it uses mathematics and probability to correctly guess what your thinking 75% of the time. more sophisticated versions of the game can “learn” from game to game using a sophisticated matrix of weighted information.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
many people shop for athletic equipment thinking that if it looks cooler, its better, but a lot of mathematics goes into optimizing uniforms, shoes, balls, bikes, and all other athletic equipment for the best performance. the strategy of playing sports itself requires lots of mathematic knowledge as well. a football coach will use probability in order to decide whether or not to run a risky play.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Math is included in just about everything. Im sure when you jump in the pool and make a splash, you never knew that math was being incorperated. The ability to make water splash comes from the use of laminar flow streams where all particals move in parallel and at the same speed. Fluid dynamics make it possible for water to preform such acts.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Have you ever wanted to become an archaelogist and a mathmatician? Well you can because archaeologists because many fragments of things such as pots from ancient civilizations are broken and tattered and there are thousands of fragments in one area so if they want to put them back together they need some help from people who are in the peald of mathematics. They scan the artifact and recreate what it prbably looked like using geometry and statistics. They also can recreate the dinosaur bones and visualise their movement and put them together using a similar process.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
REMEMBER THAT ALL BLOGS ARE DUE BY 12:00AM ON 5/13/08!
Thanks to all of you who have participated and made this assignment a huge success!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
have you ever looked through a magazine and said wow thats a nice picture what if i told you it might have been fake well there is ways you can tell if it is one is by looking at the shadows and see if they are in different directions according to the artical when you tamper with a photo or anything it is recorded in the file that stuff has been changed from when it was put on
May 12th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Video games without mathematics wouldn’t be the same. Geometry, Calculus, and Linear Algebra all pitch in on making characters, action, and scenery look more realistic and less two-demensional. There is also something called inverse kinematics that is involved. It helps out with much of the character;s movement. For instance, the angle of the character’s foot, shin, or upper leg all incorperate math. So for all you video game lovers, math deserves some credit.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Mathematics is used to understand how to identify the parts of the brain that correspond to specific parts of your body. Currently our scientific researchers are mapping our three dimention brains to two dimention brains, similar to making a globe into a map. wrinkles in the surface of the brain, mapping our brains is a lot harder than converting a globe to a map.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
solving sudoku is not just about putting numbers every were there is a mathmatical equation on how to get the numbers to fit into the right square this is also another way you can check and see if you got the right awnsers for a sudoku puzzle
May 12th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Testing with real human hearts isn’t possible, but experimenting with mathematical models of the human heart has led scientists to a new understanding of its processes. Mathematics and the computerized heart can replace years of experimentation in laboratories. For example, understanding resulting from mathematics hastens the design and perfection of artificial valves.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I did the wrong website on that last two of my responces
the 3′rd responce of mine was supposed to be
http://www.ams.org/ams/mm16-brain.pdf
and the 4th was supposed to be http://www.ams.org/ams/mm10-heart.pdf
May 12th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Going with the floes
You can tell if there has been a massive climate change by just looking at the icey parts of the ocean and to see if the ice still reamains the way is was about a month ago.A form of mathematics called percolation theory helps explain how salt water travels through sea ice, a process that is crucial to the amount of sea ice present on the surface and in the water.Mathematicians are working to understand sea ice and help refine
climate predictions.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
For scientist to calculate the amount of stars and galexies requires a LOT of mathematical ability. Scientists have configured that as a result of our telescopes there is a massive amount of space filled with Planets, Stars, galexies, and who knows what else is out there.
A great deal of math is required in order to work with galexies
May 12th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Simulating Galaxies
Mathematics was used to determine the amount of stars there are in just our solar system alone. Also it so used to determine how far away other planets and galaxies are away. Multi scaled calculators are used to get the huge numbers that are required to determine so may different things in space suck as the amount of stars, the temperature of the sun, and quite a few more things.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
FaKiNg PhOtOS:
Well, i do think its pretty amazing that people are willing to print fake pictures of celebrities to the point where fans would now think that they are dating. But of course that isn’t the point. The point is the transformation that these pictures go through before being published. If you really want to fake people out then it will take a lot of time, management, and of course skill. Some of the skills that might make your photos more convincing are being able to know how to do calculus, linear algebra, and statistics!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
everyone hates spam when fighting spam you use lots of math well you dont but the tools you use do they calculate how many times the email has been sent or if they send different emails it checks to see the type of grammer the person or people used when the wrote the email the first or he other times to see if it matches or is cloes to before and if it is its marked as spam
May 12th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
in the Artical Finding oil it talks about how much the cost of getting oil out of ground is and how they have improved finding oil. did you know that it costs 20 million dollars to dig a single well. so if you are going on luck alone each well you dig is putting you more in debt. so instead of guessing all the time hey use sound waves and math to figure out were the most amount of oil is and drill there. now instead of risking it all you just need to use math to strike oil.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Making a splash
Fountains these days are enjoyable to see because of their marvelous interplay of water, light and music. And it’s all thanks to math. Laminar flow streams make the water move so precisely. A complex mathematical analysis of fluid dynamics makes water perform fascinating moves and tricks such as climbing stairs. Powerful algorithms drive the software that coordinates thousands of lights through the many sequences in a show.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Storing fingerprints
Storing and identifying fingerprints isn’t an easy task. An image is a function that gives the color and intensity of each pixel. This function can be written as a combination of special functions. These are called wavelets and the way they fit together is easier to store and retrieve than the function by itself
May 12th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Creating crystals
The field of crystal formation is crucial to the integrity of steel, superconductors, and computer chips. While crystals are forming, they have oddly shaped boundaries that are moving, which makes only a couple solutions to their equations possible. Heat is diffused more easily away from the surface than into it, so crystals in the direction of the outside form faster than inside. The extra material that orientation brings to the problem of crystal formation makes solving the needed equations harder.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Seeing the world through fractals
The similarity of fractals is successive in magnifications of images, each one
representing the original. Because they involve iterations of simple processes, fractals often arise in the study of chaos. Like a fractal, a chaotic system has hidden complexity. Small changes at the start of a process that feeds back into its own self can produce big changes later.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Revealing Nature’s Secrets
Models must be fairly complex to see how a single species interacts with other species and with its environment. Today’s mathematical ecologists are faced with the far more difficult task of simulating several interconnected chains of organisms across different scales of time, size, and space. To do that, researchers resort to some somewhat new areas of mathematics, for example non-linear dynamical systems and spatial statistics.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
in the artical being a better sport it shows how using math can make sports performence enhance off the charts. by using math althletes have become faster, stronger, and more flexible. thanks to math sports have become more competive.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Gas prices would be a lot higher without mathematics. There are techniques which make operations easier. Drilling a well costs millions of dollars. At that high of a price you do not guess where there would be a lot of oil, you use math models. You find data using soundwaves that are underground and other types of math are used such as a nonlinear equation. Researchers are using statistics to figure out the uncertainty involved and are giving planners more descriptive models. Without math we could not find as many resources of energy and oil.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Finding Fake Photos
Have you ever wondered how the press has gotten some of the photographs you have seen in some of your favorite magazines? In many cases those photographs we alternated by hi-tech computer software so they can sell there made up stories. Calculus, linear algebra, and statistics are especially helpful in determining when a portion of one image has been copied and pasted to another or when part of an image has been replaced with another image.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Do you know anyone who has been a really bad fire or care accident and there face has gotten hurt really badly. New mathematics allows surgeons to plan reconstructive facial surgery to help those victims. Previously, replicas constructed from CT scans were used, which were expensive and not the most efficient way to go. The new virtual models use geometry, partial differential equations, and numerical analysis to show the placement of bone and soft tissue and different options on how the place them back where they should go. So now surgeons and their patients can see the predicted results and choose what one best fits them.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
in the artical canning spam it talks about how when you delete spam from your inbox it comes back in a matter of seconds. and how you install a filter but the spammer uses key words to slip by the filters. but using math and new filters that learn called bayes’ theorem that looks at the mail as it comes in and learns over time and in the end blocks all spam. all in all math can be very helpful we it comes to email.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Canning Spam:
Spammers have gotten more and more creative in the ways they hack into your e-mails. there have been plenty of anti-spam programs downloadable on computers, yet spammers seem to always find a way to get around them. i get spam all the time, and i absolutly hate it.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
traffic has been getting worse ever since new types of cars were made and lots of people got enough money to get them traffic is the worst and it is messing up our atmosphere which coudl be the problam to why our climate is always changing so much in little time
May 12th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
In about 20 years, computer chips will be so small that the effects of quantum
mechanics will replace the physical laws we take for granted.Among the capabilities of a quantum computer would be the ability to do the calculations
necessary to break today’s electronic encryption methods.This is not as
alarming as it may sound, because cryptographers have already designed algorithms
to take advantage of the quantum mechanics principle that observing a system’s
state changes it.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Since the sun is 93 million miles away, elctromagnetic disturbances usually don’t effect us, but a solar storm can. For example, in 1989 solar explosions resulted in the collapse of a major power grid, which left about 6 million people in Canada without power. Space weather forecasters no our which have better mathmaticall models which can predict solar activity and it’s effects. Space weather models are based on Maxwell’s electricity and magnetism equations and fluid flow equations which are complex so they must be solved numerically. This improves our understanding of the space envirement and enables us to prevent solar storms.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:04 am
while i was reading bend it like bernoulli i found out that you do not need to know mathmatics in order to kick a ball. I also learned that you need to hace accuracy on your shot. while taking a free kick soccer players don’t need to know math at all they just need to know where to put the ball and how hard they have to kick it.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Have you ever wondered how cells function? the process that cells perform are as wonderous as their individual mechanisms are mysterious. Molecular biologists and mathematicians are using models to begin to understand operations such as cellular division, movemnet, and even communication. These cell functions are depicted with complex wiring diagrams. Researchers later translate the diagrams into equations, which are often solved numerically.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:11 am
do you know how to find a fake photo? because i do. There are a couple of ways that you can find a fake photo. you can tell if it is a fake photo by the backround of the picture. If the picture as two totally different backrounds then it is fake. Also, there have been over thousands of photos that have been submerged together.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Solving Sudoku
Sudoku puzzles involve a lot of mathematics and all different amounts of time dependent upon how skilled you are at solving them. There are more than five billion different puzzles and not just one way to solve each one. To design a Sudoku puzzle professionals use theory and symmetry, which is crucial for much of modern physics and chemistry.
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May 13th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Do you think you know how to solve a sudoku? well, i know an eaiser way. Sudoku is all about mathmatics. Sudoku is more mathmatics then it is a puzzle. You have to put the numbers in each row without repeating the number more than once in the same row. also these squares are like latin squares which you will need to know in algebra.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am
The flow of air has been studied over hundreds of years, but only recently have mathematicians begun to understand the complicated phenomenon of turbulance that is a crucial part of air craft vehicles. turbulance effecting aircraft is hard to understand even beyond computer technology. Advances in theory allow technology access to solve this problem
May 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Who would have known that mathematics has so much to do with sports! Not only does it affect the way in which players play the game but also the way in which points are scored. For example, in reading “Bending it like Bernoulli”, I learned that the trajectory of a soccer ball has tons to do with how the ball moves when it is kicked. This could change if a shooter misses or hits its target. In fact, Addidas changed the way in which the design of their soccer ball is to enhance the air trajectory of the ball to its highest extent for this reason. If sports didn’t have so much to do with math people would have a very difficult time figuring out how to play the game the best it can be played.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I think it is interesting that you can solve crimes using math it is fascinating how many problems can be solved using math to find the solution. they used an algorithim to pinpoint a murderers position that sounded cool. i really didnt care much about the checking your assumptions part, that seem ed dumb i liked the mathematic aspect of the murder mistery.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Do you play video games? Well have you ever thought how htey were created? I did, and i found out how they make the characters look so realistic. By using your mathmatical skills you can make a two-dimensional charachter look more realistic by using geometry and calculus. mathemathics is like beating another level in the video game.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:26 am
BrInGiNg RoBoTs To LiFe:
Okay, so wow! This is actually really cool. I think that being able to bring robots to life would be an amazing and fantastic creation. This invention would not be what most people consider easy, but with some good skills and math, it could in fact be done. Some of the skills that would be needed would be geometry, statistics, graph theory differential equations, and linear algebra. I do also think that letting robots have their minds of their own is a subject that can be debated, but other than that I think it is a smart invention that can be quickly advanced.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:29 am
From modeling microscopic genes and proteins to tracing of an epidemic through a country, mathematics plays a Major role in fighting disease. the basic model used to analyze the dynamics of infectious disease is a system of differential equations. Mathematics has helped recent fights against foot and mouth disease. Epidemiologists used mathematical models to conclude that early efforts were insufficiant to stop that would become a much worse disease.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Have you ever played the game twenty questions? well how does something the size of a yo-yo even read your mind? really, it doesn’t read your mind. It is all in mathematics. The game is like a little computer that calculates what your item can really be. While it is only right 75 percent of the time it still has to calculate between a mineral animal or a vegetable.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:31 am
As i played with my little 20 Qs game i didnt think about all the math that it used to figure out what i have determined by yes/no questions. I really thought answers to the yes/no questions were predetermined for each vegetable, mineral, animal, and other thing i may have in mind but i weally didnt realize the magnitude of math it takes for it to tell a leopard from a cheetah.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am
have you ever seen an unbelivabe picture in a magazine? well, it was probly edited. many people use software to edit pictures. math is actually a big part of this. calculus, lineral algebra, and statiscicts are especially helpful when determining if a photo has been tampered with.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Do you ever get those annoying e-mails for different adds? If so they are most likley spam. People are trying to fight spam with many new tools, including filters that look for telltale signs that a messsage is spam. Spammers have gotten smart though and can get throught the simple filters by disguising the words and intent of their messages. Using new and old mathematical
tools, mathematicians continue to work on making it harder for spammers to get throuh to your computer.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:36 am
In 7th grade science many kids were frustrated by the time it took to get things in focus, well try doing this for your job. Astronomers are tired of always having blurry images due to earths atmosphere, the atmosphere distorts the light given off by the planets and blurs the image. Now with changeable mirrors, algebra, and geometry astronomers are experimentikng on how to reflect light back onto their regular paths.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:39 am
when i attempt to solve a soduku puzzle i have always wondered exactly how they determine where the numbers should go, i would think that if you put the numbers randomly in the grid it might not solve itself, i also thought there might be some formula for calculating where each number should go, but… i got tired and started doodleing on my puzzle.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:40 am
I think math has done a lot for us since it can be used to predict a storm surge. Storm surge is often the most devasting part of a hurricane. Math is used to predict the effect of winds, atmospheric pressure, tides, waves, and river flows as well as the floodplain. this could save so many lives. For example, math was used to predict hurricane Catrinia which saved many lives cause a lot of people did evacuate befor the storm accutaly hit New Orleans. I hope that mathematicians will continue to predict this particular weather with math.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:41 am
math is very important in music. with new technology breakthrought, people can use a type of geometry called topographa to help with scales, and determining notes. with this new mathmatical breakthrough, many can analyze music, and find the connections to math.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Immagine haveing to go throuhgt millions of diffent dbooks trying to find the exact one with all the exact iformation it it. Also what if those books were just thrown in a pile and you had to look at each one seperatly.current technology uses mathematics, probability, graph theory, and linear algebra allow people serching on the internet to find what they are searching for easily. When you go to the top of your screen and see a serch bar and type in sports, clothes, information on favorite basketball player mathematics kicks in so that sites most relevant to yur serch are listed at the top, where the user can most easily see them.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:47 am
The Flowing a of air has been stuf=deis for a long time, and just now mathematios are just beginning to realize the concept of it. With modern technology, it made the study of building air planes easier. But bakc in time, with little technology, they managed to get by.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:48 am
detecting tumors is vital, and now, is getting alot easier. with a new system called viotherapy, doctors can try and find a tumor before it gets large, or dangerous. using linear programing, math helps saves the day. this can help find and destroy the cancerous cells. all because of math.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:54 am
when you go to check your email, who wants to see a bunch of spam? advertisements everywhere! its so annoing. well, with new mathmaticaly trained filters, you can say goodbye to spam. this system has been trained to key words that lets the filter know that it is unwanted junk. who knew math could be used in so many ways?
May 13th, 2008 at 12:57 am
when it comes to information storage we want more storage per inch, we want it fast too, we alreadybmade information reqiuiring 10,000 feet of tape into an eight inch diameter disk, but when it comes to storing a massive 200,000,000,000 byte finger print, and retrieving it with speed we hit a wall, but thanks to new math using inter-weaving wavelets we make compact disk into compact chip.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:59 am
In Making Movies Come Alive it talks about using math to make special effects in movies. They combine pixels together to make geometric shapes which get stored. They use polygons and matrices to determine what shade the pixel will be. Each frame in movie can have 40 million pixels and that requires a lot of calculations to make them right and look proffesional.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:04 am
ExPrReSsInG YoUrSeLf:
Did you know that more than 15,000 points of your DNA can be located on one row of a microchip? Pretty amazing right??? Of course! Especially since these tiny chips enable doctors to look at your medical history and even track down if you or anyone in your family has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Many of these diseases are very harmful, and be able to know more about whether you may have them or not, can let doctors know what they can do to help. The tiny little chips can probably make a huge difference around the entire world!
May 13th, 2008 at 1:14 am
ReAdInG YoUr MiNd???:
Who would have thought that “a game the size of a yo-yo”, could involve so much mathematical material??? People may think that the electronic device is reading their minds, while it is actually using common sense and given facts to guess what the object is. In fact, the game actually guesses the right answer more than 75% percent of the time, especially when you look at it as a game for kids, because thats basically what it is. Anyway, the game uses it’s “brain” by first determining which objects are still probable and then making sense of the answered questions. It’s not that complicated once you think about it!
May 13th, 2008 at 1:23 am
MaKiNg DeSiGnS A ReAlItY:
The Sydney Opera House is an amazing structure built out of many triangles and spheres. Architects and engineers model complex shapes using a succession of polygons and simpler curved surfaces. Many modern buildings around the world have been known to be very simple and plain, using inly basic patterns, shapes, and sizes.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:41 am
There are a lot of people that do not know about fake photos but, actually, it is really easy to spot a fake. Recognizing what is real and what fake requires a little attention. Look at the sky, look at the ground, look at everything behind the subject of the photo and compare. Notice how light affects the subjects of the picture. There are so many ways human body can blend. You should try finding fakeas. You might even be interested in it !
May 13th, 2008 at 9:59 am
in the artical reading your mind it talks about how the games 20 questions that most of the time gets the question right. and this is how it does. This sophisticated toy uses mathematics such as probability and fuzzy logic, and mathematical objects such as matrices to determine your animal,vegetable or mineral more than 75% of the time. it also uses In this case, answers are given weights,with “unknown” having a weight of zero. that help it guess your object, in the online game the weights adjust after every game so it learns to have a better chance when it guesses. in the end this amazing game can only be run with math.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:23 am
No longer is invisiblity confined to fiction. Using maxwell equations and metamaterials. a metamaterial is a material with a -X index of refraction so it warps photons around it faster than the speed of light in a vacuum (yes it is posible to faster than light). So before you go looking for your invesiblity clock at wall mart metamaterails can only work on wavelangth of light.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
How do they forecast the weather? Without mathamatics it would be tough to forecast the weather, because you need math to collect information to calculate approximate solutions to figure out he weather. While figuring it out, you need to take in to account the rotation of the Earth and the perpetual interaction among land sea and air. That info. would be impossible without the help of math. You would also need to know the speed of the clouds and the distance from the clouds to the area to calculate how much time it will take to get there, that is another thing that couldn’t be done without math. That is how math is used in daily life, and without it we wouldn’t know a ton of thing that we need
May 13th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
As we know, gas prices are rising by the week. Remember when the price used to be a dollar or so a gallon? Well, you can goodbye to that. If it weren’t for modern oil exploation techniques, the price of gas would be even higher! Did you know drilling oil wells now relies on mathimatics? Drillers use soundwaves from underground to find fluid flows.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
using certain styles of math an annoying tendency of assigned airline seats is also costly. It is faster for someone to choose an unoccupied seat nearest to them and not only is this style satisfying it is also cheaper and cheaper to do. I definetly prefer the choose-your-seat style to the assigned vesion of chaos and thanks to math it is proved to be a quicker less stressfull system resuling in a cheap way to satisfy passengers at a gain
May 13th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
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May 18th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Eye-Dentifying yourself:
When I read “Eye-Dentifying yourself” I found it really interesting, because it explained how the iris of everyone’s eye varies greatly and is different from others. It also talks about how people could be identified by their iris, and in the future, they could check people’s eyes instead of using PIN numbers. That sounds like a really cool idea that would be easier and more convenient. It would probably also be harder to steal someone’s identity. Using mathematics, people could scan someone’s eye and identify their eye. I thought that was a very interesting concept.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:34 am
PiNpOiNtInG StYle:
“Mathematics is not just numbers and brute force calculation-there is a considerable art and elegance to the subject.” This quote alone says so much about how art is not a very simple and easy thing. As much as it can be, it cannot. Saying this, I mean that I learned that most paintings that look like random drops of paint, have actually been placed oh so carefully in the right spot, and formed to the right size and shape. The next time i say “That looks really easy, I could totally do that!” I’ll probably think twice.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:53 am
In Pin Pointing style they described that mathematics isn’t all about numbers and calculation. There is math behind art as well. I can relate to this subject because I love art, and it has become one of my favorite subjects. Although some paintings may look like they just winged it, or threw paint at the canvas, well some painters turn to math to finish their art. When I can’t get an angle, line, or opposite side right, I can always turn to math, or a ruler to fix the problem.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:56 am
I found Putting Music on the Map to be very interesting. For one I can relate to music, it surrounds me in every aspect of my life, and I couldn’t live without it. In this section they explained how resent new studies led to the discovery of how to make points replace musical notes, or chords. This showed the relation between notes and showed how far apart they are, even if they are an octave apart. Now they can really analyze any kind of music.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:58 am
BoArDiNg FaStEr:
Who knew that boarding a plane consisted of so much time and money??? This problem could easily be decreased and hopefully, soon fixed. Researchers proved that with the help of the mathematical procedures such as the Lorentzian geometry and random matrix theory, the boarding times of planes can be decreased and money can be saved. Researches have also shown that back-to-front barding is actually slower then people barding at random and getting to choose their own seats. Researchers were finally recognized when their theoretical analysis confirmed simulations were conducted by many airlines. It may not seem like such a big difference, but those little extra minutes of loading can cost millions of dollars of revenue each year. The costly price is really amazing!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Reconstructing Faces:
Have you ever wondered how surgeons plan out facial surgeries? They obviously don’t just wing it, but I was surprised and interested to learn that they predict results and plan the process using a three-dimensional simulation. It allows them to decide and test what would work out. The system is surprisingly accurate, which allows them to test new techniques and procedures. I think this is a very interesting article.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
When i read the story, “Reading your mind”, I really got a feel for probability with math.As many people may know the little toy called “20 questions”, teases people into believing that it is reading your mind when it guesses what thing you are thinking of. This, however, is not true. The game uses a type of mathematics called probability. When this little toy guesses your question it really is using math to find it! AI or Artificial intelligence is another form of math. In this process a computer uses math to calculate, from a matrix of words, what it needs to do. Math is used in so many awesome ways and this one is one of the most interesting to learn about.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
when i read the story “targeting tumors” i was able to understand how mahtemeticians are able to locate and track tumors. Using math like geomotry, partial differtial equations, and linear programming scientists are able to make sure that they can track cancer cells throughout the body. Aside from locating the cancer cells scientists are also sometimes able to destroy them. Using a method called virotherapy, Scientists use viruses to destroy tumors. To do this however, scientists must create mathematical models to determine which virus or how many to use. Math, which people usually think to have to do with numbers, actually has a lot to do with the medical field.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Who would have known that mathematics had so much to do with video games! In reading, playing the game, i learned that to make a video game work there must be several mathematical solutions going on so that the game looks as 3D or realistic as possible. For example, the game must calculate and be able to apply many algorithms so that the game can process and infinite amount of solutions for anything that many go on in the game. Math is important in many things but as far as video games go, math is key to their success.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Not only is math important for things like science, electronics, engineering and sports but also positioning on the globe. The Global Positioning System, or GPS is a type of advanced technology that can pinpoint a location almost anywhere on earth with the ease of presses a button. Working the GPS is the easy part, understanding how it works takes many mathematical formulas and perfection before the system is able to locate something. The way the system works is making the receiving device, the GPS, be able to relay its info from the transmitting device, the machine you use to send out the signal. And amazingly the GPS is able to operate on a relatively weak signal, only a billionth of the power of most modern TV’s! This system is very important for not only you but the military, emergency teams and much much more. And it wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for advanced mathematics.
May 31st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
In tageting tumors I figured out how people use mahtemetics to locate and track tumors.Geometry, partial differential equations, and integer linear programming are three areas of mathematics are used to find cancer cells. Aside from locating the cancer cells they can also able to destroy them, using virotherapy, Scientists use viruses to destroy cancer cells.Researchers are using mathematical models to discover how to use the viruses most beneficially. peole think that math is numbers and equations but it is really helpful to scientists.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I found “Eye-Dentifying yourself really” interesting, because it explained how the iris of everyone’s eye varies greatly and is different from others, even between twins. It also tells how people can be identified by their iris. In the future, they do not have to use PIN numbers just have to check people’s eyes. This would make it a lot harder to steal someones identity. This sounds like a really good idea that would be easier and more convenient. Using mathematics, people could scan someone’s eye and identify their identity.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Reading Your Mind:
The game 20 questions is a devise that can “read your mind” but the truth is it uses mathmatics to get all of the answers. The online game of 20 questions is basically artificial intelligence it uses many numbers to LEARN the answers, so it is not really reading your mind! It uses weights and objects to get the right answer 75% of the time.
May 31st, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Sudoku puzzles are a great way to get your brain thinking. It doesn’t matter if you use numbers or any other kind of symbol in the puzzle. The process that leads to the solution will always remain the same. The puzzles involve algebra and statistics.There are many sudoku games existing. They are a great way to activate your mind and you might even learn techniques that will help you in some situations later in life.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
in finding fake photos i learned that most photos of stars taken in magazines aren’t real at all. sometimes the magazine companies use computer software to put pictures together. For example sometimes they take two separate photographs and put them on the same background and call them the same picture because the are on the same piece of paper. well most of the time they are making fake photos and there are ways to find that out. one ways is you can use calculus to see if the lighting is the same. also if the sun is shining both ways on the face something is wrong with the photo.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Hey Hey Hey how is PREALGEBRA doing.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I just said that just for fun.