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Peeled & equatorially cut apples ready to be cored for making apple slab . January 24, 2011 John and I peel dozens of apples for pie, s...

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The computer lady gave me this puzzle today and I can't do a thing until I solve all of the equations. This is the text that accompanied...

Click on the image to read it full-size. Have fun! _/\_/\_

I can't believe it — twice in one month! My time? 1:35. Not good, but good enough. Of course, I couldn't even do today's USA To...

I have played Set since July of 1999 when I was introduced to it in a discrete mathematics course at Rutgers University . I played every s...

Update here. Cut egg cartons apart to make your own Mancala game. Paint them or cover with pretty papers and you have a custom made and wort...

Toothpicks (and, not as safely, matchsticks) can be used for a vast number of mathematics games in order to develop geometric knowledge, pro...

Unplugged Project : Puzzles : I missed Puzzle week for the project so I offer my work now. A fun arithmetic game that sparks exploration ...

Bread Alone |Futility Closet :  Andy and Bill are traveling when they meet Carl. Andy has 5 loaves of bread and Bill has 3; Carl has none an...

When a student asked why the binary number card trick worked, I decided to help them figure it out. Besides wanting to know why it worked, t...

I promised to continue the Merry Binary Christmas post when MacBook was home, and it is, so here are two more important links to that proje...

Sorry, Mom Unplugged. No string theory today. I got you-know-who The Dangerous Book for Boys for Christmas. And then I got a copy for myse...

A farmer goes to market with $100 to buy a total of 100 animals. He has to buy cows, which are $10 each; sheep, which are $3 each; and chick...

Every year I give my students a puzzle to make and take home. I choose puzzles that will amaze their families and friends. This year we will...

Remember Dave Marain's Challenge ? I posted this challenge a couple of days ago here . He quoted a riddle from a book, The Righteous Men...

MathNotations: Products of Digits: Challenges for Everyone... : "Just men we are, our number few Describable in digits two We're ha...

Egyptian geometry and other challenges: Let’s play math! : FROM THE MOSCOW PAPYRUS  (3) The area of a rectangle is 12, and the width is 3/4 ...

Egyptian geometry and other challenges: Let’s play math! : Here is a math “magic trick” from the Rhind papyrus. (Warning: The Egyptian scrib...

Text Savvy Neither of my solutions ( my and jonathan's ) was submitted by anybody else! I really have to overcome feeling intimidated by...