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Museum of Mathematics giving away iPad

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

[ I received this email yesterday about a contest put on by the Museum of Mathematics. Entering is easy. Deadline is June 1st, 2010 so hurry. ] Sol, Hello. The Museum of Mathematics – America’s only museum dedicated to the love of math – has an innovative "Math Is Fun" Twitter ...

A few odds and ends

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Here are a few items that don't each warrant its own post. I'll be hosting the next Carnival of Mathematics (#66) on June 4th. If you're new to Blog Carnivals you can read about them here and here. The current Carnival of Mathematics is hosted at Maxwell's Demon. You can submit ...

Exploring the Math of Binary Numbers: guest post

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

[ Editor's note: Rick Regan took me up on my offer to promote web sites I like. Rick has a nice blog about binary numbers. I've enjoyed thinking about binary numbers in ways I hadn't considered before. I highly recommend Rick's blog. Here is a guest article from Rick about ...

Math Intervention Blog

Friday, March 26th, 2010

[ Editor's note: Jim, of the Math Intervention Blog took me up on my offer to promote sites I feel good about. Here is Jim's intro to his blog. ] Thanks Sol for helping all of us spread the word about our contributions to math teaching and learning! Our ...

Promote your Math-related cause, website, or book

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

If you have a Math-related site, especially one that is non-commercial or mostly non-commercial, and you write me a guest article I'll likely publish it here. If you want to plug a great Math-related cause, write it up and submit it as well. If you have a book (or product) ...

Intel Partners with President Obama and Commits $200 Million for Math and Science Education

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I received this email from Intel yesterday and thought many of you would be interested: Today, as part of President Obama’s “Educate to Innovate” Campaign, Intel joined with the President to honor America’s best math and science teachers and committed $200 million to help improve math and science achievement in the ...

Formulas with lots of nines at the Wolfram Blog

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Today is 9/9/09 and here, in New Mexico, it's almost 9:09pm. In honor of 9/9/09 09:09 I want to bring to your attention an article from today's Wolfram Blog. It has 9 formulas with with lots of 9's in their evaluation. And, it shows the Mathematica formulas for them and ...

Taking a break from MMM

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

I'm going to take a break from MMM puzzles for some time. I do owe a prize for MMM #38 and I'll give one out shortly. I also will go through the MMM #37 solutions to see if there are other prizes to give out there. What I'll do for now ...

Need to take a hiatus

Friday, August 14th, 2009

I'm needing to take a couple of weeks of hiatus from the blog. I shall return! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Need to take a hiatus", url: "http://wildaboutmath.com/2009/08/14/need-to-take-a-hiatus/" });

MMM #37: Prize 4

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Alan provided a very different solution from the others and provided a Matlab program for his solution: I wrote a solution in MATLAB - I think its only uses standard mathematical functions, but I'll clarify if needed. inputs/outputs (x,y): as defined in your post z: integer value at coordinate (x,y) intermediate variables: r0: which square 'ring' ...