I first encountered Pascal’s triangle on a worksheet my older brother brought home from school when I was in eighth grade. At the time, I was taking geometry (with a teacher who had a cool pair of ...

Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Now that we’ve learned how to draw Pascal’s famous ...

Pascal’s Triangle, algebra and combinatorics. For second-graders? You’d be surprised. Deb Guthrie, a second-grade teacher at Valentine Hills Elementary School in Arden Hills, is a walki… ...

It is Pascal's Triangle, the pyramid of numbers in which the series in the next line is given by adding together adjacent pairs in the line above to generate 1, 1 1, 1 2 1, 1 3 3 1, 1 4 6 4 1, and ...

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