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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
We have a winner for MMM #9. It's Seb Perez-D. Congratulations! Drop me a line to arrange for your prize. And, check out Blinkdagger on Monday for their new problem.
A couple of people were confused about the deadline for submitting a solution. The deadline is 12:01 Tuesday Mountain Time, which ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Tonight is your last chance to get your Monday Math Madness #7 submission in.
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
I wanted to state what some of you may have been noticing: My rate of posting has decreased, posts have been more superficial, and I've been slow to respond to comments. Life has been busier than I expected, with important life matters and paid short-term project work filling a significant ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
I'm in the mood for some "light" writing so I thought I'd report this ...
The Bad Astronomy blog posted an article last November about reviewers of Texas Math books finding 109,623 errors among the books they reviewed. Houghton Mifflin, publisher of the books containing the majority of the errors - ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Do you know what is interesting about March 9 this year to most US residents?
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
[ At the surface, the following post has nothing to do with Math, but I bet that many, many people who struggle with Math could benefit from what I'm about to share with you. In fact, I'm bold enough to claim that this post could change Math-related experiences for many ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
I received this very heartening testimonial the other day. It was a great reminder for me about my real purpose for blogging here. It's especially nice to receive emails like this one when I feel myself getting caught up in subscriber counts, how many people read a particular post, ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Pascal's triangle is a very simple thing to construct, yet it has a tremendous amount of depth to it. Also, Pascal's triangle has a huge number of interesting patterns in it. If you're not familiar with Pascal's triangle then read this background article at Wikipedia and then try your hand ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
I know that this blog is doing really well when I'm attracting some very high caliber comments, many of which deserve their own posts to address.
Here are some comments worthy of mention:
1. Efrique made the connection between nomograms and the odd way a parabola can be used to perform multiplication ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
In a twist on reminiscing on old popular posts from the previous year I present some of my early posts that I thought were particularly interesting but you didn't. I like to believe that's because not many of you knew about this blog when I started it October 6th.
Just think ...
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