Mar 122009

While in China, we need ways to pass the time. What better way that solving one of the oldest logic puzzles? Duration : 0:2:37 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amusingmathpuzzles.com%2Flogic-puzzles%2Fthe-tower-of-hanoi’; addthis_title = ‘The+Tower+of+Hanoi’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: bored, brain, China, clever, ESL, fast, funny, game, Hanoi, logic, of, puzzle, solution, Solve, solving, TEFL, Tower

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Feb 102009

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division all in one video game!? AWESOME!!! Classic Game Room breaks out the calculator for Basic Math for the Atari 2600. All the fun of math with none of the hassles of school. Basic Math is like the great grandfather to the Leapfrog educational video game system. Children can learn from [...]

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Jan 232009

In another channel called 2d7182818, he/she has proposed six methods, concerning a math puzzle of changing 2718 2818 to 2009 in a mathematical way. It took me 9 minutes 33 seconds to come up with the 7th method and so I’d like to share with others. Duration : 0:3:13 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amusingmathpuzzles.com%2Fmath-puzzles%2Fre-2718-2818-to-2009′; addthis_title = ‘Re%3A+2718+2818+to+2009′; [...]

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Jan 172009

I’ve tried to relate a number of 9′s to some meaningful number, such as the number of this year, 2009. I intend to let people appreciate the very simple tool of mathematics, which can show their myriad of changes of use. This problem is only a vehicle to give people the taste of the skill [...]

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