Math outside the classroom

I’m always looking for math outside of the classroom. Here are just some that I found:

Was at the gas station and noticed these pieces of paper were giving me y=x^n energy. pic.twitter.com/EHua8Ygtpv

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) July 26, 2020

I found the graph of y=1/x (x>0) while on a walk. pic.twitter.com/tqBq0dxKwo

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) July 20, 2020

Please use this problem if you ever teach Pythagorean Theorem. =P

How far away is this campus cat from her dinner? pic.twitter.com/L8iTyrU5kh

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) July 22, 2020

How would you mentally calculate how many ounces of Chex Mix are in this box? pic.twitter.com/zmq87mdagY

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) July 13, 2020

I found a factor tree in the wild. pic.twitter.com/fXp6X3Utzo

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) June 23, 2020

Parabolas.

Hmm…maybe we can talk about 3-d transformations between these parabolas. pic.twitter.com/phkwrS5CYu

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) July 12, 2018

I hope this inspires you to find math outside the classroom! Thanks for reading.