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Author:Karl F. Kuhn
Description: Lesson outlines for teachers, math challenges, and philosophical discussions on how math helps us understand sports, fair taxation, gender difference, and more. The author's musings on mathematics as a game cover Pascal's Triangle, primes, the golden mean, trisecting the angle, and approximating pi. His thoughts on mathematics as a tool address radiation, the physical constants, the Lorentz Transformation, gedanken (thought experiments on quantum physics), the economy, an indirectly addressed data structure, and "Are Cars Waves?"
Levels: Elementary, Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
Languages: English
Resource Types: Lesson Plans and Activities, Problems/Puzzles, Recreations
Math Topics: Golden Ratio/Fibonacci, Prime Numbers, Pi, Patterns/Relationships, Constructions, Philosophy, Physics

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