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m-bracelets

Nov 22, 2009
It is easy to generalize number bracelets to moduli other than 10—at each step, add the two previous numbers and take the remainder of the result when divided by m. Here are some pretty pictures I made of the resulting bracelets for m ranging from 1...

One of these things is not like the others…

Nov 21, 2009
Hat tip to Tanya Khovanova.

Number bracelets

Nov 17, 2009
Recently I’ve been volunteering with the middle school math club at Penn Alexander, a PreK-8 school in my neighborhood. Today we did (among other things) a fun activity I’d never seen before, called “number bracelets”. The students seemed to enjoy...

minim

Nov 4, 2009
A fun game I discovered recently, minim. In each level you start out with a network of numbered nodes, and the object is to successively combine the nodes according to certain mathematical rules in order to end up with only a single node. The levels...

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Nov 2, 2009
I recently acquired a copy of Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna. It defies categorization: is it a comic book? A biography? A book of philosophy? ...


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