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Mathematics

Mathematics is about numbers, shapes, symmetry, chance, change and more. Much more! Math is not only the most rigorous mental discipline ever invented, it's among the richest, most wide-ranging and most useful. Mathematics is also central to the information revolution. Downloadable music files, DVD movies, digital special effects and secure online credit card transactions, essentially any software application you can think of, owes its existence not just to computers, but to the mathematical algorithms that run on computers.

Hockey Geometry
Players in every position of the game are constantly using geometry to make passes and take shots on goal

Science For A Sustainable Future
Researcher blurs the lines between chemistry, materials science, applied physics and applied mathematics to help predict the behavior and impact of tomorrow’s materials

Revealing Nature's Mathematical Formula For Survival

Mathematical physics team finds geometric patterns linking structure to function in leaves

New 3-D Structures Assemble With Remarkable Precision

Self-assembling nano boxes open the door to “smart” particles for medicine, manufacturing

Particles And Pirates
What shapes pack most efficiently?

Science Behing The News: Extrasolar Planets
Detecting planets outside the Earth's solar system

Reflexes & Reaction Time

NHL goalies rely upon the unconscious decisions made by their reflexes to prevent opponents from scoring

Science Behind The News: Opinion Polls And Random Sampling
Explaining the science of random sampling and why it's possible to query a few hundred or thousand people to accurately determine the opinions of the general public

Work, Energy & Power

In hockey, the slapshot is one of the most dramatic demonstrations of the transference of force and energy

Force, Impulse & Collisions
During a game, every movement of the puck follows the laws of physics and illustrates the concepts of force, impulse and collisions

Vectors
Hockey is a game of chaos, but vectors are behind the scenes making sense of that chaos through mathematics

Statistics & Averages
Understanding the opposing team's stats and averages is one method of mentally preparing for a hockey game

Projectile Motion
Projectile motion allows hockey players to shoot the puck with a high rate of precision

Newton's Three Laws Of Motion

Newton's Three Laws of Motion apply to every single movement in the sport of hockey

Mass, Volume & Density
Hockey takes advantage of one of the most interesting substances in the universe, water

Kinematics
Kinematics helps describe a player's movement across the ice by defining his position, velocity and acceleration

Math Research That Really Adds Up

Why are American schoolchildren so bad at algebra? University of Notre Dame psychologist Nicole McNeil has a theory.

Chalk Talk: Binary

How binary is the world we live in? Watch this video to find out.

Innovators: The Root Of A Good Teacher
How teachers are learning to inspire the next generation of math geniuses

Using Density Functional Theory To Design New Materials: From Magnoelectronics To A Theory Of Everything