Archive for the ‘Math contest’ Category
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.
April 7th ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Something new is coming to the blogosphere. It's Monday Math Madness!
Stay tuned for details ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
While surfing the web I discovered this: World's Hardest Easy Geometry Problem. There's actually two geometry problems on the page. Apparently these are classic problems that have tortured students for a long time. I spent a little bit of time working on the first, and even looking at the two ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
I've created a new page, Math contest problem links. It lists a number of contest sites. Some of the pages have links to lots of other sites. I'll list more as I discover them.
The impetus for this page is that I like to sometimes find an interesting problem to chew ...
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