Questions tagged [math-puzzle]
Questions related to small scale mathematical questions that are often pursued for recreation purposes and require novel (to the participant) and compelling problem solving approaches.
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Tricks for computing things in your head
There are quite a lot of tricks/shortcuts enabling doing calculations efficiently in your head. (One of them that came to me today is the "squaring a number ending with a 5" trick I wrote about in ...
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How to explain Monty Hall problem when they just don't get it
Talking to some friends, I was asked to explain the answer to the Monty Hall problem (see also here;) .... they were having some trouble because whoever explained it to them didn't do a very good job. ...
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Playful problems in mathematics
This answer describes an analogy between finite state machines and mazes. This allows for some playful exercises, like
Draw a representation of a word accepted by the following automaton...
which ...
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Are puzzles a good way to interest pre-college students?
Nothing more quickly disspitates the myth that most people aren't interested in math than hitting them with a good puzzle and watching the instinctive human urge to solve it get to work. To be fair, ...
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Does solving crosswords help with recall of definitions?
I have an idea to help with self-study and recall of definitions.
It is to create a crossword where the clues are the definitions and the words to solve are the concepts being defined.
I haven't ...
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What's the age recomendation for my app?
I've developed an android math game called MathLab that has started to gain popularity. It's a simple fill-in-the-grid puzzle with variable cell sizes and locking cells. My daughter's math teacher got ...
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