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The Math Mom: Bat Mitzvah Favors, Messy And Full of Math.
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TRY IT AT HOME. Bat Mitzvah Favors, Messy And Full of Math. This is a guest post by my very good friend Ellina who is celebrating her daughter's Bat Mitzvah in a few weeks. In a strange and unexpected moment of creative inspiration (channeling my inner Martha Stewart, which I didn't know I could! I was told that there is a person who charges $2 per cookie when she does this, and I thought it was an exorbitant price. I needed 70 x 3 = 210 of those and wasn't ready to pay $420 for that. I want to alternate...
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The Math Mom: Renovations Math, Smiles and Tears
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TRY IT AT HOME. Renovations Math, Smiles and Tears. They told us - be careful; renovations always take twice longer than expected, cost twice more than you planned, stress your work and family life to an unprecedented level and double your chances for divorce. We thought: Nonsense! If it took 3 days to destroy all the walls, how long may it take to build new ones? 1) 3 days. 2) one week 3) three months. #3 is the correct answer. Which room is bigger? Calculate the area and compare. What about the whole b...
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The Math Mom: A Holiday Greeting for You from You
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TRY IT AT HOME. A Holiday Greeting for You from You. We already work hard as a workhorse; pull the plow as peasant horse; strive to come to the finish line first , like a racehorse; fear losing our jobs as an old horse; easily bought by sweets like a circus horse; devoted to our owner (employer , children, friends ) as domestic horse. Therefore we are ready to welcome the 2014 NEW YEAR! Be healthy, as a young horse, racing all year long. Going back to our New Year week, let's contemplate our enormous wor...
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The Math Mom: Guess Your Age Trick - Revealed
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TRY IT AT HOME. Guess Your Age Trick - Revealed. My mom asked me to explain to her this "miraculous" trick she received by email and was shocked to discover is capable to expose her age. Try it - it will guess your age as well:. What is your favorite day of the week? For Monday - pick number 1, for Tuesday - 2, Wednesday - 3, Thursday - 4, ., Sunday - 7. Multiply the number you got above by 50. Add to the result 44. Multiply it by 200. Deduct the year you were born from the resulting number. 50 x N 44.
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The Math Mom: Mother's Day Quiz
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TRY IT AT HOME. Life is a puzzle and we - moms - are experts at solving it with logic, humor, and numbers. This quiz by The Math Mom. Is celebrating moms who are wise, glamorous, efficient, and funny. Motherhood experience is required to answer. The Quiz was originally posted on boston.com. Puzzle #1: Handbag Mania. She answered: "Three quarters of their number plus three quarters of a bag." How many did she purchase? Think a bit, then scroll down to see the answer. Correct answer is 3. You are making gr...
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The Math Mom: Happy Holidays! Next year challenge - think outside of a box.
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TRY IT AT HOME. Next year challenge - think outside of a box. Happy holidays to all my dear readers! Thank you so much for your loyalty, comments and ideas. Please keep them coming. Wishing you a healthy and successful year. Today I would like to tell you a story and give you and myself a New year challenge: Lets try thinking outside of a box. This is one of those things when many other scientists and lay people probably think: It is so simple. Why haven't we thought about it before? New balance pas cher.
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About The Math Mom
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Photo by R. Ruscansky. Named "Hot Blog" by the Redbook Magazine. Profiled in The Boston Globe. PBS Kids-selected Math Mentor. TRY IT AT HOME. It has been my drug, my meditation, my weapon and my best friend. It fed and dressed me, led to travel, men, lavish parties and even Cuban cigars. It has placed my name on a movie screen, put my work in museums and allowed me to manipulate things deep inside the human brain. It is called Math. And share your math story. This site attracts approximately 4,500 unique...
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The Math Mom: 2011 Is One Sexy Prime
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TRY IT AT HOME. 2011 Is One Sexy Prime. This story was published by Boston Globe on January 25, 2010 (online edition) and February 10 (paper edition). Link. 2011 is a sexy prime. And not only in a Playboy calendar. Like prime ministers and prime ribs, prime numbers are the elite of their kind. They are unbreakable. A lot of special numbers around us are primes. Emergency phone numbers 911 and (in some European countries) 101 are primes. The fearful 13 is a prime. Primes have always been the most talked a...
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