Creating art that uses camera angles and perspective is cool, but how do artists use math to create brain-tricking images?

When you send a password or credit card number across the internet, how can you ensure it stays safe?

Swimming fast is tiring work! Olympic athletes have trouble performing at their peak as the race wears on. How can mathematicians help swimmers perform at their best?

As more states and territories join the United States, flag designers need to accommodate more stars. How can they use math to make visually appealing designs?

Video games are a ubiquitous part of everyday modern life. But how can some blinking lights on a screen create an image?

Today’s Math in Real Life is on the phenomenon of phyllotaxis spirals. There are a lot of myths and silly math out there about the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers in nature, but this one’s the real deal!

Two vertices are adjacent if they share an edge and a neighborhood of a vertex is the set of its adjacent vertices…

If you’re reading that over and over to figure out what it means, today’s Math in Real Life can help you understand how social networks are created. We hope our breakdown makes it easy for you to visit SUMM’s neighborhood on Facebook and Instagram by liking/following us!

Tune in to today’s SUMM Math in Real Life topic! Revolved around musical instruments and the ratios behind neighboring notes. With this knowledge, we hope by the time summer hits you or a friend can bring this discussion to an event like Seattle’s @capitolhillblockparty

Tune in to today’s SUMM Math in Real Life topic! Revolved around musical instruments and the ratios behind neighboring notes. With this knowledge, we hope by the time summer hits you or a friend can bring this discussion to an event like Seattle’s @capitolhillblockparty

Tune in to today’s SUMM Math in Real Life topic! Revolved around musical instruments and the ratios behind neighboring notes. With this knowledge, we hope by the time summer hits you or a friend can bring this discussion to an event like Seattle’s @capitolhillblockparty

Tune in to today’s SUMM Math in Real Life topic! Revolved around musical instruments and the ratios behind neighboring notes. With this knowledge, we hope by the time summer hits you or a friend can bring this discussion to an event like Seattle’s @capitolhillblockparty

Tune in to today’s SUMM Math in Real Life topic! Revolved around musical instruments and the ratios behind neighboring notes. With this knowledge, we hope by the time summer hits you or a friend can bring this discussion to an event like Seattle’s @capitolhillblockparty

Tune in to today’s SUMM Math in Real Life topic! Revolved around musical instruments and the ratios behind neighboring notes. With this knowledge, we hope by the time summer hits you or a friend can bring this discussion to an event like Seattle’s @capitolhillblockparty

Computers handle massive amounts of data processing every second. How does math help these computers, well... compute?

When we look at ourselves in a mirror, we might smile or frown. But how do things change when you look at them in a mirror?

As the weather starts to warm, many of us are excited to get outside and hike. So how can you tell if a hike will be easy or hard?

How do knitters decide how many stitches to put on their needles for the desired product size?