Archive for the ‘Game’ Category
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.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
We've completed two Monday Math Madness contests. Last Friday Blinkdagger announced that Joshua Zucker, director at Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, was randomly selected as the winner of the 2nd contest. Now it's my turn to post a contest problem. Those of you who are astute readers may have noticed that ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Earlier this month UC Berkeley professor emeritus of mathematics David Gale passed away. Gale made a number of significant contributions to mathematics and he loved puzzles, games, and finding beauty in mathematics. Gale's daughter had this to say:
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
On March 3rd Blinkdagger and I posted the first Monday Math Madness problem. On March 11th, after the first contest ended, I posted a couple of different solutions to the problem. Pat Ballew, even though he wasn't picked as the random winner, impressed me with a very clever solution to ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Blinkdagger has posted the second Monday Math Madness contest. It has a fun St. Patrick's Day theme. Check it out!
You've got a week to solve this problem and send in your well-explained solution. The Blinkdagger guys are giving out $10 in Amazon gift certificate cash to a randomly-selected winner.
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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 ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
In 1956 Robert Abbott invented a game he called Eleusis. In 1959 Martin Gardner popularized the game in his Scientific American column. Eleusis is what's called an "induction game" which means that players need to try to induce the rules of the game. Inductive games are compared to deductive games, ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
There's an interesting web-site, brainetics.com, that is all about doing mental Math quickly. I have to confess that while I know quite a few mental Math tricks and while I've written quite a number of posts and made several videos about mental Math tricks I'm not particularly fast at applying ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Games and Math go really well together, although a lot of people don't make that connection. Math really can be fun if some of its principles are taught through games. We see this in quite a number of free and commercial video games that teach math concepts, typically through solving ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
There are zillions of Sudoku web-sites geared toward adults. I've gotten interested in finding Sudoku sites for the little ones, in particular my 6 and 8 year old nieces. While Sudoku is not strictly "about Math" it is a great exercise in logic, it engages kids with numbers and patterns, ...
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