Tag Archives: math puzzle
Pi-ling Up On Pi
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears … Oops, sorry, you can have your ears back (hope they still fit on the sides of your head); the ides of March are not ’til tomorrow. But still, friends of pi, do … Continue reading
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The Thrill of the Chase
“We need these experiences — noticing patterns, making conjectures, struggling with them mostly unaided by the teacher, researching appropriate related material, crafting a series of flawed-but-each-one-better-than-the-last arguments for why the conjecture could be true, creating a good logical argument and … Continue reading
Newest Math Teachers at Play!
Hi all! I expect many readers of this blog may also be familiar with the two math carnivals: rambling celebrations of all things mathematical that wander monthly among math and math-teacher blogs. The Carnival of Mathematics (CoM) is explained here; … Continue reading
Puzzling Out Some Quadratics
When teaching, I try (with mixed results) to keep my students interested in the topic at hand. Sometimes I motivate them by giving them a project where they discover a mathematical relationship with minimal help and minimal direct instruction from … Continue reading
