has disappeared.

So there is a new museum that shows how fun math can be, he it is part of everyday life

and the riding tricycles on square wheels



The message is simple: math is everywhere; a part of our daily lives, from the time you get out of bed ("Timekeeping was one of the original drivers for the creation of mathematics," said Whitney), to putting on your glasses ("Optics has its foundation in mathematics&quot , to knotting your bow tie ("I see your bow tie. And the knot there is one of the most vibrant, rich areas of mathematics right now&quot .

And that's the point - math may not be as easy as pi, but it isn't so square, either.

"Do you think that math lovers can seduce the math haters into liking math?" aske dRocca.

"People who are really engaged with math understand that there's a lot of folks out there that don't see it the same way they do," said Whitney. "And they really want to show them the beauty and the wonder and the excitement that they experience. So hopefully, we've done that. Time will tell. But that's certainly what we're trying to do."

As a Poli/Sci English major I never expected to have a child enamored with numbers and equations. This is right up her alley, how cool.

Or this:

Problem is (and it's America's problem as well), it's often not. Instead, instructors almost go out of their way to make the subject boring, labyrinthine, repetitive and exclusive. They're also not very encouraging or supportive of those who just aren't getting it.

Or maybe as it gets more difficult, there just ain't any easy way to make it intriguing and that's just that?

Of course, when I studied math, the teachers did not have all the computer and video graphics. But I had a math teacher who could do wonder with numbers and presentations.