Talk:Project Mathematics!
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[edit]Hey, thanks for all the work on this everyone! Out of Phase User (talk) 17:08, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Notability
[edit]Project MATHEMATICS! is a series of educational videos. It is notable in the fact that the National Science Foundation (NSF) reviewed the project, found it beneficial and funded it. NSF grant No. MDR 8850730
It is also notable in that teachers across the United States use it to teach millions of students about mathematics. In addition to being used in the classroom, it has been shown on Public Television across the United States as well as shown on NASA Television. The National Teachers Training Institute (NTTI) suggests it to teachers that teach mathematics. NTTI description of Project MATHEMATICS! at Louisiana Public Broadcasting NTTI description of Project MATHEMATICS! at Oregon Public Broadcasting Project MATHEMATICS! at NASA
Many sites use this series of videos but do not always cite that it is Project MATHEMATICS!. Therefore I am adding the following Google search link for the term "The Story of Pi" which is a part of this series. Search for "The Story of Pi"
Quality may be compromised by peacock terms
[edit]The article has been re-written to remove the "peacock terms".
Written like an advertisement
[edit]The article has been re-written from a neutral point of view so that it no longer reads like an advertisement.
Spelling, grammar and phrasing
[edit]I just completed a major overhaul of the entire article and could use some help on spelling, grammar and phrasing. The basic information is there it just needs some tweaking. 64.40.62.102 (talk) 00:56, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
References and formatting
[edit]Cited references for things that are stated as facts. Having great problems figuring out the format of the material between the "ref" tags. Also, Not sure if the formatting of the entire article is up to spec.
Finally found it.
Manifestly irrelevant content
[edit]"For all right triangles, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides (a2 + b2 = c2). The theorem is named after Pythagoras of ancient Greece. Pythagorean triples occur when all three sides of a right triangle are integers such as a = 3, b = 4 and c = 5. A clay tablet shows that the Babylonians knew of Pythagorean triples 1200 years before Pythagoras, but nobody knows if they knew the more-general Pythagorean theorem. The Chinese proof uses four similar triangles to prove the theorem.
"Today, we know of the Pythagorean theorem because of Euclid's Elements, a set of 13 books on mathematics—from around 300 BCE—and the knowledge it contained has been used for more than 2000 years. Euclid's proof is described in book 1, proposition 47 and uses the idea of equal areas along with shearing and rotating triangles. In the dissection proof, the square of the hypotenuse is cut into pieces to fit into the other two squares. Proposition 31 in book 6 of Euclid's Elements describes the similarity proof, which states that the squares of each side can be replaced by shapes that are similar to each other and the proof still works."
Who cares? The section is about the Project Mathematics! video on the Pythagorean theorem, not about the Pythagorean theorem itself. The same goes for "The Story of Pi" – maybe it is true that "pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter and is roughly equal to 3.14159" but it's irrelevant to an article about a video series. I think that all of that clutter should be deleted. Garry2.71828 (talk) 13:30, 22 July 2025 (UTC)