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		<title>Two Games Called Meta</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2012/01/two-games-called-meta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blokus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few days, my kids have been arguing about what game to play after school. The younger one wants to play Junior Monopoly but the older one thinks that&#8217;s too boring. The elder one wanted to play Blokus, but the younger one said that was too difficult. My wife suggested Pictionary as a compromise, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep This In Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/12/keep-this-in-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[causation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[graphs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When reading the news, keep in mind that just because two things change together, doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s any direct causal link. See this post for some silly examples!]]></description>
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		<title>7 Billion</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/10/7-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to official sources, the world&#8217;s 7 billionth person was born today. This is a fiction. The goal is to raise awareness about the world&#8217;s population. It&#8217;s working &#8211; the news seems to be all over the blogosphere. Part of the reason for the fiction is that we don&#8217;t have good enough information about populations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hitch-Hiker&#8217;s Guide to Mathematics</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/10/the-hitch-hikers-guide-to-mathematics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/10/the-hitch-hikers-guide-to-mathematics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[axioms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase Douglas Adams, &#8220;There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers the foundations of mathematics to be contradictory, they will instantly disappear and be replaced with something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened&#8221; Imagine you&#8217;ve discovered something that will make you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Money for British Maths</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/09/no-more-money-for-british-maths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/09/no-more-money-for-british-maths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[s austerity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EPSRC, or &#8220;Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council&#8221; is the body in the UK that decides what kinds of research in the physical sciences will get government grant money. Grant money is needed for advanced research in mathematics for the following reasons : This kind of research produces amazing benefits down the track, however [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Math Of &#8220;Collect All 12&#8243;</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/09/the-math-of-collect-all-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/09/the-math-of-collect-all-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Math Of]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[math of]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Free toy in every pack! Collect all 12!&#8221; Have you ever wondered why companies offer promotions like this? How many packets of cereal would you have to buy to have a decent chance of collecting all twelve? Let&#8217;s see what the math says! So, your child has started a collection of cereal packet toys. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Child&#8217;s View of Standardized Testing</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/09/a-childs-view-of-standardized-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/09/a-childs-view-of-standardized-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAPLAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My son was asked to write a short essay on standardized testing. I thought I&#8217;d share it with the world. Note that these are his opinions, not mine! I&#8217;ve edited it slightly for clarity. Should Standardized Testing Be Scrapped? I strongly believe that we should definitely scrap NAPLAN [Ed : NAPLAN is the nationwide standardized testing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dice and Polynomials &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/08/dice-and-polynomials-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/08/dice-and-polynomials-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puzzles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyclotomic polynomial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[probability generatiing function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spinner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post, I explained how to quickly and easily work out, say, the number of ways to get a 10 on three dice, just by multiplying together some polynomials. It doesn&#8217;t have to be real dice of course. The trick works just as well for spinners, balls in a hat, or computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dice and Polynomials &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/08/dice-and-polynomials-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/08/dice-and-polynomials-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puzzles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[combinations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you have two coins. One side is blank, and one has a single dot. You flip the coins. How many ways can you get 0 dots? How many ways can you get 1 dot? How many ways can you get 2 dots? If you got answers like &#8220;1 way / 2 ways / 1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Is Not Prime, and Fermat&#8217;s Last Theorem</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/08/7-is-not-prime-and-fermats-last-theorem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/08/7-is-not-prime-and-fermats-last-theorem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fermat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kummer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seven]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a book about numbers recently, and almost put it down when it started talking about prime numbers. The author had tried to work out the prime factors of 72, got as far as 2 x 2 x 2 x 9, then said &#8220;you guessed it, 9 is a prime number!&#8221; Arrgh! I [...]]]></description>
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