Archive for November, 2008
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
I've gotten excited about using twitter for VERY short snippets of fun Math stuff. I've started twittering URLs of cool Math sites.
If you're interesting in following my tweets, not all will be about Math, my twitter name is slederman.
If you twitter a fair amount about Math leave your twitter ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
We had 25 submissions for MMM #19 so I decided to give out two prizes! Random.org picked the numbers 6 and 22, which corresponded to the entries from Patrick Swickard and Todd Trimble. Congratulations to the two of you! I'll be contacting you to get you your prizes!
Everyone who submitted ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Troy Williams was announced as the winner for MMM #18 over at Blinkdagger. Congratulations, Troy!
Now it's time for MMM #19.
I have a Rubik’s Revolution, courtesy of Techno Source (or $10 Amazon.com gift certificate, if you prefer, or $10 in USD via PayPal to non-US folks) to give to the winner.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
My brother gave me a Math problem this morning. He and I both know how to solve it but we're both disturbed by the fact that the right answer seems unintuitive. I'm interested to see if one of you can explain the answer in a way that is intuitive.
Here's the ...
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