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I’m a journalism student in college, and math is one of the requirements for not only graduation, but also to help me transfer to a four-year school. There are going to be some situations coming my way involving math, so I had better learn about it now.
Math is all around us, especially in sports. I’m a sports fan, and I especially enjoy watching hockey. I’m curious about how a hockey puck is measured in advanced mathematical terms (Volume, Area and Circumference).
Face it, very few people like math. Math is almost everybody's least-favorite subject in school and in life. But math is all around us.
With this illustrative piece, you will first learn how a puck is measured in area and circumference . Second, you will learn how to measure the diameter , so you will know how to determine the radius . Lastly, you will measure the puck by its volume .
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Article written by Brian Nemeth