Discovery learning has long been a part of mathematics teaching in the elementary and middle grades. Since the 1960s and 1970s, based on the work of Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, and others, helping students 'discover' or 'construct' their own understandings of mathematical concepts through well-designed activities facilitated by a competent teacher…

When hoping to initiate or sustain students' interest in mathematics teachers should always consider relevance, relevance to students' lives and in the middle and later years of instruction in high school and university, accessibility. A topic such as the mathematics behind networks science, more specifically scale-free graphs, is up-to-date,…

There has been a lot of material written about logarithmic spirals of golden proportion but this author states that he has never come across an article that states the exact equation of the spiral which ultimately spirals tangentially to the sides of the rectangles. In this article, the author intends to develop such an equation. (Contains 5…