Calculating The Dietary Damage Of The Holiday Season Get your calculator ready. Halloween is behind us and we’re rapidly closing in on that most wonderful time of the year...The Holiday Season...a festive time filled with family, friends, and food! Tables are laden with the special dishes that only appear at this time of year. Will power...   Read more »

The Increasing Obsession With Fitness Fitness! The very word conjures up visions of a well-toned body in those who are already fit and nightmares of torture and pain in those who aren’t. Fitness buffs today have become almost “cult-like” in their devotion to physical perfection. The rest of us are less obsessed and many see...   Read more »

PEMDAS – What’s In A Name In the arena of equation calculation, PEMDAS is the name of the game. The acronym PEMDAS, which stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction, defines the order in which the components of a complex equation are completed. Its purpose is to allow equations to be consistently...   Read more »

Reality Math Is Functional At some point during our educational experience, we’ve all wondered why the study of math is such a big deal. Surely, we think, we’ll never use this stuff again in our real lives. Math is for teachers and geeks. Real people need just enough math to balance a checkbook, calculate a tip, or determine mileage...   Read more »

A Not-Exactly-Comprehensive Introduction to Pi Welcome to the mystical world of Pi. What exactly is Pi? Truthfully, there is nothing exact about Pi. In fact, from the hand-calculated efforts of ancient Babylonians to the 21st century age of supercomputers, determining the value of Pi has become a quest rivaling the search for the Holy Grail....   Read more »

Why Should I Invest In A Financial Calculator? Let me introduce you to the fourth member of the calculator family, the financial calculator. Like its siblings, the basic calculator, the graphing calculator and the scientific calculator, the purpose of a financial calculator is to do the heavy lifting for you as you journey through the maze of...   Read more »