Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Last Friday Blinkdagger announced a winner for MMM #8. Here's MMM #9:
Consider all of the 6-digit numbers that one can construct using each of the digits between 1 and 6 inclusively exactly one time each. 123456 is such a number as is 346125. 112345 is not such a number since ...
Posted in Game, Fun, Math contest, Puzzle, Probability | 6 Comments »
Friday, June 6th, 2008
We have a winner for this seventh contest. Congratulations, Brent Yorgey! I'm delighted that Brent, of Math Less Traveled, won this one because Brent gives so much to students and readers of his blog. Brent - Enjoy your $25 gift certificate from our kind sponsor for this contest, the Art ...
Posted in Fun, Math contest | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
I've been wanting for some time to incorporate mathematical equations into my blog posts. What I've done up to now is to use this nice web site that Brent from Math Less Traveled pointed me to. You enter a LaTeX expression and the web-site creates an image which you then ...
Posted in Reviews | 23 Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
A while ago I received an email out of the blue from Texas Instruments (TI). One of their marketing people discovered this blog and offered to send me a TI-Nspire calculator to review. I quickly accepted, after all, who would turn down a free fancy calculator, right? Once I received ...
Posted in Reviews, Education, Geometry, Algebra | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Tonight is your last chance to get your Monday Math Madness #7 submission in.
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Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
