Content Showcase: Math in the News

September 2012. In this issue of Math in the News we look at the great Monarch butterfly migration.

4/25/11. In this issue we discuss the BP oil spill one year after the spill. In particular we look at how damaging oil spills are to marine life and to oxygen levels in the water.

September 2012. In this issue we look at August 2012 unemployment statistics.

September 2012. In this issue of Math in the News we look at the Monarch Butterfly Migration with new data since our last investigation of it.

September 2012. In this issue of Math in the News we look at the remarkable success of the Washington Nationals baseball team. In the process we look at the success of new baseball franchises and why this happens.

October 2012. In this issue of Math in the News we look at Columbus' voyages. We make some calculations based on map data.

October 2012. In this issue of Math in the News, we look at Felix Baumgartner's dramatic supersonic dive. It provides an ideal opportunity to study terminal velocity.

October 2012. In this issue of Math in the News, we look at probability maps that predict landfall and storm surge for Hurricane Sandy. This provides a real-world opportunity for data analysis.

October 2012. In this issue of Math in the News, we look at Halloween-related data. In particular, we look at statistics related to pumpkins.

November 2012. In this issue of Math in the News, we look at statistics for the recent Presidential election.

February 2013. In this issue of Math in the News, we look at statistics for the flu season.

February 2013. In this issue of Math in the News we look at statistics related to Russian meteor that recently crash-landed. Watch some compelling eyewitness video and explore how the path of meteor was reconstructed.

5/2/11. In this issue we explore the wildfires in Texas. In particular, we conduct random walk simulations as a tool for predicting the path of a wildfire.

May 2013. In this issue of Math in the News we look at the situation in North Korea with the potential of its aggressive missile launches.

July 2013. In this issue we look at the crash of an Asiana Airlines in San Francisco. We investigate the math behind why the crash may have happened.

August 2013. In this issue we analyze why the movie the Lone Ranger is considered a box office flop, even though it has earned nearly $100 million. We analyze box office data.

August 2013. In this issue we look at the geometry of funnel cakes. You'll like the sweet results.

August 2013. In this issue we look at the University of Michigan Study on American driving habts. The results show that Americans are driving less. But why is this? We look at the data and draw some conclusion.

August 2013. In this issue we look at Diana Nyad's remarkable swim from Cuba to Florida. It becomes an opportunity to explore Average Speed.

September 2013. In this issue we look at NASA's newest Moon mission, the LADEE robotic probe. It becomes an opportunity to explore linear and logarithmic equations used in rocketry.

September 2013. In this issue we look at Voyager 1's amazing milestone: Leaving our Solar System and entering interstellar space. This provides an excellent opportunity to explore large numbers using scientific notation.

September 2013. In this issue we look at the impressive engineering effort in raising the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that sank off the Italian coast. This provides an opportunity to study vectors in the context of physics.

September 2013. In this issue we take a second look at Blackberry's financial woes. This is a follow-up report from Issue 52, where we looked at the company's revenue problems. Here we examine its final fate.

5/9/11. In this issue we look at tornado season. In particular we study why the swirling winds of a tornado are so damaging.

October 2013. In this issue we follow Peyton Manning's extraordinary season with the Denver Broncos. This is a follow-up from Issue 51. This is an excellent opportunity to look at different data graphs, including box-and-whisker plots, bar graphs, and tabular data.