Math Corner

Math Corner: Perfectly Probable

By Jason Gershman • Question: NCAA’s basketball championships are knows as “March Madness” (where NSU’s men’s basketball team is the defending NCAA…


Math Corner: Pi-ameter Procurement

By Jason Gershman • Question: For NSU’s upcoming Pi Day celebration (to which you are all invited to, on Thursday, March 14,…


Math Corner: Bass-t Guess

By Jason Gershman • Question: Suppose you are trying to determine how many bass call NSU’s Gold Circle Lake home. First, you…


Math Corner: Card Shark

By Jason Gershman • Question: Suppose that the NSU Florida Men’s Baseball team had a promotion whereby students who attend a home…


Math Corner: Veggie Survey

By Jason Gershman • Question: In a survey of students’ likes for a cooked vegetable to be served at Razor’s Reef, 71…


Math Corner: Acci-dean-tal

By Jason Gershman • Question: At NSU’s Commencement Ceremony, the deans of five different colleges are invited to sit on the stage…


Math Corner: Lost Time

By Jason Gershman • Question: Assume you have a face clock whose hands indicate the exactly correct time on the date of…


Math Corner: Currency Withdrawal

By Jason Gershman • Question: Student Sally Current wishes to withdraw $2,400 from a bank teller. When asked in which denomination she…


Math Corner: Binary Figures

By Jason Gershman • Question: To decipher a four-digit binary code (consisting of only 0’s and 1’s) in a video game, gamer…


Math Corner: Wardrobe Overcharge

By Jason Gershman • Question: Student Razor Q. Shark wants a new wardrobe for the fall semester. He makes 11 separate shopping…