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Multiplication Puzzle!
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! Have you seen puzzles like this one? Take a minute (or a little longer) to try to solve it. If you\’d like to see how I dealt with it, and some questions I raised along the way and afterward, check out this video: Calc You Later!
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Calculus Formula Puzzle
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! For those of you who are learning calculus, do you miss how games used to be part of your lessons? Here\’s a jigsaw puzzle of an important calculus formula so you can study while you put it together. (Click the picture to go to the actual puzzle.) I…
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Whopper of a Puzzle
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! (Content notice: not-quite-spoilers for a puzzle at a well-known fast food burger chain.) In this video I combine summation notation, powers of -1, fractional exponents, factorials, and a few other things along the way, to solve a whopper of a problem. I hope you enjoyed sinking your teeth…
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Number Code Puzzle
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! For your entertainment, here\’s a puzzle that was posted in a math group on Facebook. (Wording adapted a little.) How many unique three-digit codes can be formed, using the digits 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 following the rules below? code must be between 400 and…
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Puppy, collar, bone \”solution\”
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! This video shows my work on a puzzle posted last week. As you can see, we can get different answers in some puzzles, depending on how we interpret them. That\’s OK! Just make sure you take notes on what assumptions you make in solving a puzzle so that…
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Puppy, collar, bone
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! For your midweek enjoyment, here\’s one of those picture-value puzzles. Mind the last line carefully! I\’ll post my work once folks have had a chance to try on their own. Calc You Later! Update: This post has a sequel in which I work out a solution.
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Puzzles and Formulas
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! This is what I came up with by exploring relationships between numbers in yesterday\’s puzzle. Like I mentioned, there are still some directions available for further exploration, so I don\’t think we\’re done yet with this puzzle and ones like it. But, for now, Calc You Later!
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A simple-looking puzzle
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! Similar to crosswords but with numbers, intersecting math facts can form puzzles. Here\’s an example. While completing this puzzle is straightforward for most mathematicians, setting up more puzzles of the same kind is more complicated. For example, if the middle number were 2 instead of 3 and the…