Middle schoolers study the components of a deck of cards and conduct an initial experiment in the probability of drawing various types of cards from a deck. They play two rounds of poker to discover the probability of drawing several...

Students explore how sound waves move through liquids, solids and gases in a series of simple sound energy experiments. They describe how sound needs molecules to move and that changing the medium that it travels through changes the...

Learn about Hermann Minkowski's mathematical works from the Encyclopedia Britannica online. Click on the underlined terms to understand their relationship to Minkowski or Minkowski's work.

Encyclopedia Britannica online provides a short biography regarding Emile Borel's life and mathematical works.

Britannica Encyclopedia offers a brief summary of the life and accomplishments of Japanese mathematician Seki Takakazu.