A classic riddle about a hotel bill uses misleading math to create a paradox. This type of intentional misdirection is a common technique used in magic tricks. Here’s a riddle my father told me when I ...
Started by CU Boulder applied mathematics Teaching Professor Silva Chang, Colorado Math Circle is celebrating 20 years of bringing middle and high school students together in a community that has fun ...
I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...
If two people pick alternate slices from a pizza that has been cut unevenly from an off-centre point, common sense suggests one of them will walk away with more. But geometry says otherwise.In the ...
Papa Pig calls the moves in Amy Axelrod's Pigs in the Corner: Fun With Math and Dance, illus. by Sharon McGinley-Nally, the eighth title in the Pigs Will Be Pigs math series. Square-dancing sows and ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results