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It’s Monday Morning Math Time!
If you’re hungry, have a look at this yummy breakfast math video. You’ll see there’s more than one way to cut a bagel, and maybe learn a bit of topology too.
I promised to give you a solution to the movie ticket problem.
If you missed it, have a read here and see if you can solve it before you read on here!
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Here’s a puzzle for you to try – how creative can you get while solving it? Continue reading Movie Tickets and Time Machines
Often movies include scenes showing math. Often, the math is on a blackboard or whiteboard in a character’s room or office, or in the background of the credits roll at the end of the show. The intended effect is, I guess, to tell the audience “this character is a genius of some sort, he or she is going to provide the hero with some amazing invention or information that will help defeat the villain”.