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These schools have been recognized for their contributions to math education. There’s some good ideas here worth emulating.

In this Newsletter:

1. Length of an Archimedean Spiral
2. 1000 blog posts. What’s next?
3. Resources
4. Poll results
5. Puzzle
6. Friday math movies
7. Final thought: Secret of getting ahead

A reader poses a interesting question about how to find the length of an Archimedean Spiral.

Vi Hart gives us an enthusiastic overview of how music and math relate.

This blog has passed a key milestone – 1000 articles!

Building a robot that flies like a bird is no mean feat – but these guys have done it.

In this Newsletter:

1. Golden Spiral
2. Math e-Books for $0
3. 13 yr-old designs efficient solar collectors using Fibonacci and trees
4. Wolfram’s new Computable Document Format
5. Math Puzzle: Solution and new one
6. Friday math movies
7. Final thought: Powerful weapon

Golden Spirals involve a lot of interesting math, from exponential curves to polar coordinates, tangents to a curve and approximating curves.

This is hilarious – or very disturbing – depending on your point of view.

Here’s a useful discovery by a 13 yr-old, using math and good observation skills.