Math Poster - A World Of Possibilities

This is really a fascinating image taken from the Space Station as the two space craft float over the top of the clouds we look up at. The featured equation here is a Clohessy-Wiltshire equation for computing the relative motion between two orbiting spacecraft. Whoa, far out man!

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Math Poster - The Key to New Frontiers

Now this is what a math poster should look like. The Space Shuttle Endeavor floating nose up over the earth. The math equations fade from the classroom to the last frontier. We see the challenge and the possibility. Kinda gives you the willys huh?

This math poster measures 23" x 35" but can be printed in a number of sizes. The largest looks the best though. This poster really has a lot of impact in the classroom.

Clicking on the image above gives you a larger view. Also you'll see some close ups below that show what this math poster really prints like.



Sharp and colorful. Click on the image, it gets better!

Now here's something I think is cool about this math poster.



That's right a NASA mathematician taking a break from doing his homework to look at his buddy taking a picture of the Endeavor from the International Space Station! Click on the image and you can see him even better.

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Zazzle Issue

One of the reasons I wanted to create this math poster blog was because of a problem I'm having with Zazzle. When I upload my math posters to their website they look blurry and dull. I believe it is Zazzle's compression software which creates a small thumbnail image for the web page and over does it making a poor image. It doesn't seem to be a problem with all the images. However, the poster above "Key To New Frontiers," for instance, is frightfully bad and I've tried everything to correct it but to no avail. The poster you get from Zazzle will be better than what you see here even. I created them and have printed them from the main files. They look great! Zazzle has a 100% satisfaction guaranty. Please, if you have problems let me know.

Math Poster - Space Shuttle launch

What attracted me to this image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch was a tremendous sense of power. Consequently, I chose an equation which calculates the thrust of a rocket engine. Smart huh? Each math poster has an explanation of the equations at the bottom of the poster. "Math Gives You Wings" also has the web address for the NASA page which goes into detail about this equation. Very educational!

Also I wanted to show off a detail on the poster which I worked really hard on but doesn't show up so well on the Internet.


That's right, melting math equations!!

Zazzle gives you several size options. However the poster was created to be 31" x 23" which includes about a 1/4" white border. You may also chose higher quality paper than poster stock and options to frame it.


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Math Poster - SR-71 Blackbird

Watch your students go slack jawed when they walk into your classroom and see this jet powered math poster! The message? If you want to fly jets - learn your math!

OK, yeah, I might be going out on a limb with that pitch but you know what I mean.

This poster is 30" x 23" which includes a 1/4" border. Zazzle will give you the option of printing a smaller size. All these math posters really look best in the larger size.

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SR-71 Blackbird

While technically not a math poster this picture of NASA's SR-71b Blackbird is just too good to pass up. Apparently this plane had just been refueled in flight, which explains the fuel leaking from the wings. One of the men on the refueling plane snapped this picture as they were crusing within feet of each other. In this poster I incorporated three different images to get the overall look I wanted.

Clicking on the picture will give you a slightly larger image.

This poster measures 30" x 23" which includes a 1/4" white border. Zazzle will give you a number of printing and framing options.

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Math Poster - the beginning

OK, so how did these math posters get started? Well, I'm not exactly a mathematician. Yeah, you probably figured that out by now. Actually, I'm an artist and graphic designer. Like a lot of you visual spacial types out there, I married a math teacher. Last year she got her own math classroom and decided it needed some math posters for the walls. So she does what everyone does and Googles math poster. The math posters that show up on the Internet were just a little, shall we say, dull. While a math poster of math facts or geometric shapes may be useful, it wasn't the sort of inspirational math poster she was hoping for. Every math teacher hears the same thing from their math students,"why should we learn this? We're never going to use it!" She needed some sort of a math poster that would set a mood of excitement in class. A math poster that would show and inspire students to dream about a math related career. What most math students don't realise is what sort of possibilities math gives mankind.

So where to start with the math posters? Well it doesn't take long to start thinking that one of the best images for a math poster would be the aerospace industry. NASA is an obvious source for images for my poster. After some correspondence with NASA's archivist I found pictures that could work toward illustrating a math poster on how NASA commonly uses math in their Space Shuttle flights.

Here in Colorado there is plenty of aerospace people. Turns out that a friend of ours tracks satellites for a living. And guess what? He's like a math genius. So I start bugging him for math equations to put on my math posters. He gives me these cool little math equations that he uses. They're great but I ask him,"Do you have math equations that look more like this," and I spread my fingers further apart. "You know something that will fit my math posters better." Yep, that's just the look he gave me.

Finally, he tells me what my math posters probably need is a Clohessy-Wilshire (CW) Equation which is math equations used for tracking orbits in space. Perfect I say (mainly because it looked to be the right size for my math poster.)

Little did I know my math posters were far from being done. There was still a considerable amount of computer work to do on my math posters. Several of the math posters eventually required the merging of two or three different images. Not to mention color correction, sharpening, blurring, and believe it or not artistic representation of the math posters equations.

Well, this is probably more than you ever wanted to know about math poster or the creation of math poster. Your probably wondering why I use the word math and write math poster over and over. Writing the word math poster like this makes google like you more. And the truth is I'm not expecting anyone to read all this math poster nonsense. Now that you found this Blog take a look at the above math posters and click on the links to purchase them. Oh, and one more thing, MATH POSTER!

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