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Hey guys, there is this game called “Tower Stack” or “Tower Bricks” or “Tower Blocks” (among other names) and you can play it on Facebook, or MindJolt Games, or Brothersoft Games (etc). Here is a screenshot to show what I am talking about: What you have to do is: – build tower as tall as …
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Ya so I keep hearing about this balloon boy… although I haven’t actually read any news articles on it, so based on headlines I keep seeing this is what I suspect happened: – Richard Heene makes experimental helium balloon – Heene & wife freakout since their “son” may be in the basket– crapload of publicity, …
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The mathrecreation blog just posted Math Teachers at Play 17 (well on Oct 15th, so I’m a few days late). You can find lots of humour (umm… or humor as they said on their site)… movies, activities, and MATH!! As quoted: “There is plenty of humor, a few movies, some great activities and explorations, and …
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I found this Brown Sharpie comic entertaining: Check out more of Courtney Gibbons comic at brownsharpie.courtneygibbons.org
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Over on the xkcd forums there was a post about the number of google results for the word google with a varying number of “o’s”. Such as:ggglegogglegooglegooogle…goooooo *125 o’s in total* oooogle The data yoteango collected is as follows: O’s Search Results —————————-0 105,0001 1,500,0002 2,020,000,0003 342,0004 666,0005 …
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The following page has been making the internet rounds. It’s titled sex advice from mathematicians. Here is one such quote from the page: “What’s the best way to pick up a mathematician? It depends on the mathematician. As you would expect, mathematicians vary across the full spectrum of personalities. The stereotypical mathematician is shy, so …
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So today I beat stumbleupon in math!! Check out the proof here: MathFail = 1; StumbleUpon = 0.Me thinks I deserve a medal ^_^
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This British comedy show is hilarious. It’s called “Look Around You” and the second epsidoe is about “Maths”. Check it out on youtube (at least for now): Quote from the show (but you really have to watch it to put it in perspective!!): “Narrator: What’s the largest number you can think of ? Person 1: …
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Tom Davis has a great article on the mathematics of sudoku. He first describes a brief history of the puzzle and how to play. Then he discusses why it is mathematically interesting (it is, trust me!). He goes through some obvious strategies that a lot of people try when doing sudoku and some other clever …
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People love to cheat at math for some reason (laziness? lack of understanding? failure to get help?)… anyways, here are some math cheat sheets you can use from different websites: The first one is about algebra, it has 23 pages filled with formulas: Algebra Notes The next one is much shorter about algebra again (4 …