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Numberphile’s “Pebbling the Chessboard” game and Mr. Honner’s square

Yesterday I saw an amazing math post on Twitter by Dan Anderson: Just finished the @ProcessingOrg version of the Pebbling the Checkerboard game @numberphile http://t.co/pIxTvy2cDe https://t.co/LkvweRQPgX — Dan Anderson (@dandersod) December 20, 2013 I love seeing math games with surprising outcomes that are simple to explain.  NumberPhile’s video on the problem is a masterpiece: Solving … Continue reading Numberphile’s “Pebbling the Chessboard” game and Mr. Honner’s square →

Playing with Pascal’s triangle and angles hidden in cubes

In April 2018 I saw a great Numberphile video with Federico Ardila: The project that we did after seeing that video is here: Federico Ardila’s Combinatorics aand Higher Dimensions video is incredible This week my younger son was learning about coordinates in 3 dimensions in his precalculus book and I though it would be fun … Continue reading Playing with Pascal’s triangle and angles hidden in cubes →

16 ideas I’ve learned from math, physics, and science researchers that are really fun to share with kids

I’ve had this blog post kicking around in my mind for a month or so. During that month it has morphed from not quite started to not quite finished. But I’m leaving on a work trip next week and decided to push publish today. There are so many great math and science ideas that researchers … Continue reading 16 ideas I’ve learned from math, physics, and science researchers that are really fun to share with kids →

Federico Ardila’s “Combinatorics and Higher Dimensions” video is incredible

Yesterday Numberphile published an absolutely amazing new video with Federico Ardila: The video blew me away – it felt like such a great way to share ideas about higher dimensions with kids. This morning I shared the video with my older son (my younger son had some school homework that he forgot to do . … Continue reading Federico Ardila’s “Combinatorics and Higher Dimensions” video is incredible →

One more trip through Goldbach’s comet with the kids

We’ve now down a couple of projects on the latest Numberphile video on the Goldbach Conjecture: Sharing Numberphile’s Goldbach Conjecture video with kids Exploring the Goldbach Comet with kids Following those projects I thought it would be neat to let the computer run and find the numbers that could be written as a sum of … Continue reading One more trip through Goldbach’s comet with the kids →

An unexpected surprise for me in the Goldbach Comet

I learned about the Goldbach Comet in this Numerphile video: We did two projects for kids based on that video: Sharing Numberphile’s Goldbach Conjecture video with kids Exploring the Goldbach Comet with kids My wife and kids were hiking up in New Hampshire for the weekend and I just let a simple Goldbach Comet program … Continue reading An unexpected surprise for me in the Goldbach Comet →