It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday at Cal State Fullerton and students are revved up. It’s Math Circle time. Math Circle is a Saturday program for students in second through 12th grade, most of whom are ...

Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

The circumference of a circle = \(\pi d\) or \(2\pi r\). Look at the sector of the circle shown below. To calculate the length of the arc, we need to know what fraction of the circle is shown. To do ...

Arc length is a fraction of circumference. Area of a sector is a fractions of the area of a circle. Both can be calculated using the angle at the centre and the diameter or radius. Practice circle ...

In our mind’s eye, the universe seems to go on forever. But using geometry we can explore a variety of three-dimensional shapes that offer alternatives to “ordinary” infinite space. When you gaze out ...