Mubasshir Murshed, fondly known as "Mub" by his friends, is a 17-year-old mathematics genius who has been given the rare honour, for someone of his age, of being published in a national academic ...

Many, many years ago, during my Algebra 2 class, we had the classic assignment of graphing parabolas. After a while of “select X, calculate Y,” I came to the conclusion that there had to be a simpler ...

Afterwards, teachers can continue with the formula for vertex of a parabola, and emphasize that projectiles attain their maximum height at the vertex. More fireworks Some types of fireworks explode ...

A parabola is a curved line with particular characteristics. Any point on the curve is the same distance from a fixed point and a fixed straight line. The result looks like half of an ellipse or the ...