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A reader asks for advice on 21st century skills and how her students can learn them.

This week’s movie is a representation of a 5-dimensional space acted on by 5-D forces.

Pythagoras’ religious cult had a strict regime of silence, except when they were singing songs to Apollo. This strange (to our thinking) monastic existence gave us the Pythagoras Theorem (sort of), a better understanding of the physics of music and advances in astronomical thinking.

Pixar uses plenty of interesting applications of mathematics when they are making an animated movie.

jsMath is one way to incorporate mathematics into your blog. But it has some shortcomings.

This week’s movie contains stuff you never knew you could do on Google – and a mathematical meaning of life.

Here’s a few simple mathematical models that describe the growth of ice and how it moves under different forces. With 40% of arctic ice already gone over the last 2 decades, this is important.

This building, currently under construction in Abu Dhabi, will be ‘energy positive’.

In this Newsletter

1. Pi Day
2. Math tips – Functions and Factoring
3. Latest poll
4. Latest from the math blog

As today is Pi Day, the featured movie this week is the movie Pi.