Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
For the very first Monday Math Madness contest we got 13 submissions. Of the 13, 6 were correct. For the record, I solved the problem by enumerating the various cases where 3 categories were represented and computing and adding their probabilities. I also verified my solution to the problem by ...
Posted in Fun, Math contest, Puzzle, Probability | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Four of you have submitted answers to Monday Math Madness so far but only two of them are correct. Remember, the Blinkdagger guys and I are picking a good random answer, not the first good answer. So, you've all still got a chance to win $10 to Amazon.
Heather, from the ...
Posted in Game, Fun, Math contest, Puzzle | No Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I was contacted last week by a couple of Matlab geeks, Quan and Daniel, who have started a blog, Blinkdagger, about co-sponsoring an ongoing Math contest. Now, I was a little confused because I think these guys are engineers, and I didn't know that engineers took Math classes :) (Maybe ...
Posted in Fun, Math contest, Puzzle | 9 Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Ok, so this is not Math-related but I did discover it in the book Fun With Mathematics. The book, by the way, which is out of print and only available used, is definitely worth a couple of bucks plus the shipping cost.
So, what do the following words have in common?
playgrounds
dumbwaiters
workmanship
republicans
sympathizer
Yes, ...
Posted in Fun, Puzzle, Word Fun | 7 Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Something new is coming to the blogosphere. It's Monday Math Madness!
Stay tuned for details ...
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Posted in Fun, Math contest, Puzzle | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
In my neck of the woods in northern New Mexico, the Fractal Foundation lives the mission of inspiring interest in science, Math, and Art through the beauty of fractals. The Foundation puts on fractal-related programs in schools and takes them on the road. The Foundation also sponsors a very popular ...
Posted in Fun, Beauty, Art, Geometry | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Wild About Math! has been growing. The blog has many more RSS readers than it had even a month ago, people are leaving more comments, and I'm getting a few purchases through the Amazon search box and occasional clicks on links of books I've reviewed. While the revenue for this ...
Posted in Fun | 2 Comments »
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
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Posted in Fun, Humor | 16 Comments »
Monday, February 4th, 2008
I've been using StumbleUpon for a few months now. StumbleUpon is a free social networking community like Digg, Delicious and many others. What's unique about StumbleUpon is that you download a toolbar that lets you stumble upon (view) random sites on many different areas of interest. When you download the ...
Posted in Fun | 2 Comments »
Friday, February 1st, 2008
9 is a most interesting number. I'm sure that's largely because 9 is 1 less than 10 and most of us have 10 fingers (or digits) and we do arithmetic in a base 10 system. I've seen an amazing number of math tricks that take advantage of something called ...
Posted in Trick, Fun, Algebra | 5 Comments »
