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Article: Math of the world.
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- Science News for Kids
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- November 8, 2006
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If you know where to look, you can find math anywhere you go.
Math is not just in the numbers on a cash register or at a football game. It's in bathroom- tiling patterns, the shapes of clouds and trees, the arrangement of a flower's petals, a ball's path in a pinball game, the knots you tie in your shoelaces--and even in the way you lace your shoes (see "How to Lace Like an Ace").
Ron Eglash has gone even farther. He's found math in beadwork, basket weaving, Navajo rugs, modern music, and even cornrow hairstyles. Eglash is a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
The best way to get students excited about math, Eglash says, ...