STEP 1 - WRAP RIBBON: Take the ribbon and wrap it around a glass. Mark where the ribbon overlaps itself. Image caption, STEP 2 - CUT CIRCUMFERENCE: Cut the ribbon at the point where it overlaps. You ...

I’m a journalism student in college, and math is one of the requirements for not only graduation, but also to help me transfer to a four-year school. There are going to be some situations coming my ...

Introduction If you wanted to measure the circumference of Earth, how long would your tape measure have to be? Would you need to walk the whole way around the world to find the answer? Do you think ...

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 ...

It’s Pi Day – the day that math geeks across the globe collectively pause to celebrate the first three digits of pi, or 3.14. The mathematical constant, which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference ...