For the rest of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), my other blog is featuring a logic game or puzzle every day. So far, I’ve shared three of my online favorites:
And there’s plenty more fun to come. Drop in every day until December to see a new puzzle or game:
[Photo by gabi menashe.] This story is continued from Alexandria Jones and the Eighty-Yard Drive…
There was a time-out on the field, and the Jones family sat down for a brief rest. Sam asked, âHow do babies decide when itâs time to be born?â
âWell, son, it has to do with numbers. You see,â Uncle Will explained, âthe baby spends his first month thinking about the number one.â
âThatâs not much to think about,â Sam said. âBut I suppose he canât handle much at that age.â
[Sung to the tune of the Gilligan’s Island song.]
The carnival is up and now it’s time to click away.
Go check out all the links in this month’s Math Teachers at Play.
There’s algebra, geometry, and some Egyptian vids,
Equations, jokes, domes, real numbers, and games for all the kids….
[Photo by West Point Public Affairs.]
Alexandria Jones pulled the last sheet of chocolate chip cookies from the oven and inhaled deeply. Mmm! Perfect. And just in time — Mom was calling her to the car. She slid the cookies into a plastic bowl but left the lid off so the steam could escape. The Jones family was going to meet Uncle Will and Alexâs cousin Sam for a tail-gate picnic before the big football game.
A topologist walks into a cafe:
“Can I have a doughnut of coffee, please?”— Tanya Khovanova
Tanya Khovanovaâs Math Blog Âğ November Jokes
My Blog Parties for Teachers sidebar widget is now updated with the latest carnivals. If you host an education blog carnival that you think my readers might enjoy, please email me a link.
I have been enjoying James Tanton’s website. In this video, Tanton explains a foolproof method for creating Egyptian fractions:
See more posts on Egyptian math.
Chess is a favorite game for recreational mathematicians — not to play it, but to play around with it. Many puzzles and challenges are based on the moves of chess pieces.
Stretch your brain with these puzzles:
For my Calculus for Young People students: Beware! We studied a few infinite series that converge to a nice, tame sum — but not all series are so well behaved.
Check out this mind-blowing video from the author of Math Without Words:
[See also: Harmonic Series Quotation and For Niner: A Bit of Calculus Fun.]
