Arnold Packer chairs the Scans 2000 Center within the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The center is conducting the study mentioned in the essay. Successful 5th ...

Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math ...

The radius of a circle or a sphere is the distance between the center and the edge. The radius can be used to calculate a circle's diameter, area and circumference. Likewise, a sphere's volume is ...

So you have a circle. What is the area of that circle? Surely everyone remembers that the area of a circle is: Where Pi (π) is of course the number and r is the radius of the circle. Where does this ...

Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Throughout history, circles have symbolized many things: unity, ...