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When am I ever going to use this? Why do we need to learn this?

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:37:01 +0000

Probably every math teacher has the experience of facing such questions; most likely the students who asked them were not looking for the answers as arguments to study mathematics, but rather in support of their conviction that the effort is not necessary. Most of the answers teachers give perfectly serve this purpose. I wrote about [...]

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Engaging math activities for the summer break - Day 4

admin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:55:29 +0000

For Day 4 of the break, I shall present 4 games that may at first appear rather unrelated; this is the purpose of the activity to discover the commonality between the four. All four are two-players games, with the players moving in turns. The Fish Soup game For the game you should prepare 9 cards [...]

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An Olympiad Problem for a Kindergarten Investigation

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:11:44 +0000

An interesting problems has been offered at the 1993-1994 Saint Petersburg Regional Mathematical Olympiad, grade 9. Ten chips are placed on the main diagonal of a 10×10 chessboard, one chip per a square. A move consists in selecting two chips and moving each - if possible for both - to the next square below its [...]

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