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Dr. Mike’s Big Numbers Contest | Ramblings of a Math Mom
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Ramblings of a Math Mom. Ramblings of a Math Mom. Dr Mike’s Big Numbers Contest. June 19, 2010. For the last day of school, we decided to have all the kids in the school (ages 5-14) spend 5 minutes on Dr. Mike’s “Big Numbers” contest. The rules, from Dr. Mike were:. You may write anything at all in the box on the entry form labeled Write your number here . I will try to interpret what you write as a number. If I cannot interpret what you write as a real, finite. 8230; though I think not as big as the sec...
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Pi Day Post on Irrational Numbers | Ramblings of a Math Mom
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Ramblings of a Math Mom. Ramblings of a Math Mom. Pi Day Post on Irrational Numbers. March 14, 2009. Pi to the pi. My youngest son is obsessed with. 8220;How much is. 8221; he asked me one day recently. “I don’t know, a little more than 27,” was my unsatisfactory reply (which, it turns out, is only accurate for large values of “a little”). Google Calculator. Tells me that it’s (approximately) 36.4621596 but what does it really mean to raise an irrational number to an irrational power? 8212; the former sh...
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2010 Puzzlers | Ramblings of a Math Mom
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Ramblings of a Math Mom. Ramblings of a Math Mom. January 8, 2010. I asked my middle schoolers to design problems involving the number 2010 to share with a partner. I ended up being the logical person to be my 13yo son’s partner. This is what he gave me. I haven’t solved them yet. ;-) Feel free to take a shot at them. If you like puzzles like this, also check out the 2010 game. Over at Let’s Play Math! From → Math. Larr; Fascinating Facts about the number 2010. Watch this Space… →. Leave one →. You are c...
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Dr. Mike’s Big Numbers Contest | Ramblings of a Math Mom
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Ramblings of a Math Mom. Ramblings of a Math Mom. Dr Mike’s Big Numbers Contest. June 19, 2010. For the last day of school, we decided to have all the kids in the school (ages 5-14) spend 5 minutes on Dr. Mike’s “Big Numbers” contest. The rules, from Dr. Mike were:. You may write anything at all in the box on the entry form labeled Write your number here . I will try to interpret what you write as a number. If I cannot interpret what you write as a real, finite. 8230; though I think not as big as the sec...
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Calculator Rant | Ramblings of a Math Mom
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Ramblings of a Math Mom. Ramblings of a Math Mom. September 17, 2007. My 14yo is a highly gifted math student. 4 years ago, if I’d asked him how many ways you could choose 3 people out of a group of 8, if order didn’t matter, he’d have reasoned something like this:. 8221; His reply, “I don’t know, I just know how to type it into my calculator.” ARGH! Fast forward many years to when I began volunteering to help with math teaching at my kids’ K-8 school. I handed out a mixed set of MATHCOUNTS. Coming up wi...
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Watch this Space… | Ramblings of a Math Mom
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Ramblings of a Math Mom. Ramblings of a Math Mom. Watch this Space…. June 19, 2010. The Blog Carnival “Math Teachers at Play” will be appearing on this blog as soon as I manage to put it together, sometime tomorrow. Sorry for the delay, but the submissions are amazing, and worth the wait! From → Math. Larr; 2010 Puzzlers. Dr Mike’s Big Numbers Contest →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Get every new p...
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Math Teachers at Play: Bonus | Ramblings of a Math Mom
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Ramblings of a Math Mom. Ramblings of a Math Mom. Math Teachers at Play: Bonus. June 20, 2010. In case you’re following this blog in an RSS reader or other method that will alert you to new posts, but not to changes to existing posts: check out the bonus post. Just added to the latest Math Teachers at Play. (I missed one when putting it together originally.). From → Blog Carnival. Larr; Math Teachers at Play: Three-Cubed Edition. Leave one →. July 12, 2010 3:03 pm. July 13, 2010 11:23 am. Thanks. I&#...
