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Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 6

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

The latest issue of the Bulletin is now available.  The Girls’ Angle Bulletin has faithfully come out at the end of every even-numbered month for four full years!  That’s over 700 pages of math. The cover illustrates the fact that … Continue reading →

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Circles, Squares, and Parabolas

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

If you take two circles, you can position them before your right eye in such a way that one will perfectly overlap the other. In other words, a circle is geometrically similar to all other circles. The same is true … Continue reading →

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