Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Wow! We're on our fifth contest already! Time flies.
For this contest we have a new prize: The Art of Problem Solving folks have donated several $25 gift certificates that can be used in their bookstore. These folks do an outstanding job of challenging and inspiring kids to learn Math. Check ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Blinkdagger has announced two winners! They got 103 submissions and gave away two prizes!
Stay tuned to Wild About Math! for a new contest Monday. If I get more than 50 submissions I'll give away two prizes as well! This new prize is one Math lovers will appreciate. Check back here ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
On Monday I'll be hosting the next Monday Math Madness contest. The current contest, hosted at Blinkdagger, got a whopping 103 submissions but only 37 of these were correct. So, this problem ended up being trickier than expected. Blinkdagger should be announcing their winner soon and on Monday I've got ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Check out Blinkdagger.
These guys had way too much fun writing up this problem. One of the things we do when we come up with these contest problems is that, when we don't make them up ourselves, we rewrite them so a Google search won't yield the answer. Quan and Daniel ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
We have a winner for the third Monday Math Madness contest. It's Johan Potums. Congratulations, Johan! I'll be contacting you about your prize.
Blinkdagger has a very interesting new contest problem that they'll be posting Monday.
Seventeen people submitted entries. Everyone got the right answer and explained their answer well. Everyone realized ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I ran into the following problem in a contest problem book. I won't reveal the source until later. I was not able to solve this problem and even though the solution is in the back of the book so I know how to solve it now, I'd like to see ...
Posted in Math contest, Algebra | 4 Comments »
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
If you've not gotten your entry in for contest #3 you've only got through Monday night to do so. We've only gotten 10 correct submissions for this contest so far, so your chances of winning the prize are better than they were for the last contest.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({
title: "Monday Math Madness contest ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Those of you who are interested in search engine technology, or just want a good April Fools' Day laugh, might enjoy this post on one of my other blogs.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({
title: "The future of Google?",
url: "http://wildaboutmath.com/2008/04/01/the-future-of-google/"
});
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Do you get inundated with April fools' jokes every year? They all seem interesting, don't they? Have you ever wondered if someday you'll encounter an uninteresting April fools' joke? As it turns out, all of them are interesting. Here's the proof.
This will be an indirect proof. We'll assume that there ...
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