From visual to verbal - there`s more than one way to understand maths
(World News Science)

The Colosseum: a well-known ellipse. Diliff/wikipedia , CC BY-SA A lot of people claim they don´t have a `maths brain`. But the truth is that mathematicians think in all sorts of ways . There´s no one right way to think about maths - and that can create communication challenges, if someone thinking with a visual image is trying to share ideas with someone who is trying to use an equation. But it´s also immensely powerful. And if you´re finding it hard to understand a piece of maths, then maybe it´s worth looking from another perspective. Take ellipses, for example. If you look around you, you´ll probably be able to see an ellipse, such as the rim of a coffee cup. There are a lot of ways to...