When you're sorting edges from middles, will the piles ever be equal in size?
A riddle about jigsaw puzzles.
Category: Math
The Battlestar Galactica Theory of Math Education
A thought on how to break the cycle.
Should math class be hard?
The answer may not surprise you -- but it surprised me.
What I’ve Been Reading
A few favorites.
Mathematicians Play “Set”
Spoilers: they are not good at it.
Solo Flights: A Free Companion Text to “Math Games with Bad Drawings”
By popular demand. (From a demanding populace.)
Confessions of a Luddite mathematician.
Why do some wizards know no spells?
Transitivity and its failures.
In a complex world, A > B and B > C may not mean A > C.
Two ways to play chess. Also, two ways to live.
Surfing the state space vs. probing the game tree.
A theory of trios.
Inspired by the card game SET.
