20 Cool Math Animated GIF Examples - I Wish School Teachers Explained Formulas This Way

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Ever wondered how many degrees is 1 radian and how many degrees is π radian? This visual demonstration explains it in simple to understand concept of radians.

Handy trig technique if you only have pins or nails, string and pencil to create an ellipse. This is a cool quick trick to create perfect ellipses for craft projects, home diy or just general wood working.

An easy way to learn logarithms is to simply visually take the "base" number out and put it on the left of the equation.

This cool visualization explains:

  1. Why circles and right-angle triangles and angles are all related
  2. Why sine is opposite over hypotenuse and so on
  3. Why cosine is simply sine but offset by π/2 radians

Very straight forward, memorable and simple to understand binomial distribution formula.