Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Jun 20, 2010, 8:11 pm
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.)
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Jun 19, 2010, 5:55 pm
Photo Credit: Colin Hall Welcome to the Blog Carnival: Math Teachers at Play! Twenty-seven is one of my favorite numbers, so I was excited to find that “my” edition of the carnival would be number 27. Some fun facts via Wikipedia (click the link for even more): 27 is a perfect cube: 3³ = 3 ...
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Jun 19, 2010, 5:50 pm
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 ...
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Jun 19, 2010, 2:26 am
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!
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Jan 8, 2010, 10:42 pm
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Last night, around midnight, needing a lesson plan for my middle school group, I strolled over to MathNotations and clicked on his Number Theory category for ideas.  The Four Factors Problem filled the bill.  In this investigation, students are asked to find all the numbers less than 100 with exac...
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Square Root Day occurs only nine times per century, and one of them is today: 3/3/09.  You might have been busy celebrating New Year’s Day on the first Square Root Day of the century: 1/1/01, and you might have been distracted by Groundhog Day on 2/2/04, but make sure you don’t miss this one, o...
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
My youngest son is obsessed with .  “How much is ,” 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) 36.46...
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
A number of blog postings have arisen over the past week discussing fascinating facts about the number 2010. Check out the posts at MathNotations and 360.  I read about this gem: 2010 = 1+2-(3-4-5)*6*7*8-9 on a Mathletics Facebook post. And Theasmet has taken that to a whole new level! edited: ...
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
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. Using the following integers and a...
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Math Mom posted an article on Ramblings of a Math Mom - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
While I was off being distracted by life this summer, Kara Hazen of Hazen Happenings and Mathman at When Will I Use This? had nice things to say about my Blog.  Kara listed me among three “non-classmate” blogs she added to her RSS reader.  Mathman even gave me my very first blog award, which i...
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