Category: From Around The Web

This is really cool!

The Pythagorean Theorem has been proved many times, and probably will be proven many more times. But only one proof was made by a United States President. Five years before James A Garfield was elected president, he came up with a proof that involves a simple sheet of paper and some scissors.

http://io9.com/james-garfield-was-the-only-u-s-president-to-prove-a-m-1037750658

This is a really interesting post and well worth a read.

I’m not sure I agree with all of it. I especially hate it when anyone refers to pupils as ‘customers’, but it really got me thinking, and that’s always a good thing.