{"id":169,"date":"2010-04-22T21:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:14:15","slug":"newsletter-36-cryptarithms-and-powers-of-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/newsletter-36-cryptarithms-and-powers-of-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #36 : Cryptarithms and Powers Of 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is a back-issue of this website’s newsletter<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n

Let me talk about powers of ten first, then about cryptarithms.<\/p>\n

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My wife asked me to prepare some worksheets so my son could practice multiplying and dividing powers fo ten. I figured, why make just one or two worksheets when I can make a Worksheet Generator that can churn out as many problems as anyone could want? So I did, and put it online.<\/p>\n

If your child (or class) needs practice multiplying and dividing by powers of 10, visit the worksheet generator<\/a>, fill out the form at the end of the page, and generate a printable worksheet. Or generate a dozen or three, one for each student in the class, so they can’t copy each other’s work \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Now to talk about cryptarithms – also known as alplametics or crypt-arithmetics<\/p>\n

Some time ago, I put up a page of cryptarithm puzzles<\/a>. The web page only had a handful of puzzles, and no solutions. I knew at the time that that wasn’t really a world-shattering offering.<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of cryptarithm puzzles, there’s good news – I’ve now made a cryptarithm gadget, that displays a new cryptarithm puzzle every day (the solution is shown the next day). You can find it on the cryptarithm page<\/a> on my site. It can actually be added to any web page at all, including (if you have one) your personalized iGoogle home pag<\/a>e.<\/p>\n

If you prefer to call these puzzle by other names, I made versions of the same gadget that call them alphametics or crypt-arithmetics instead. Seach the Google gadget directory<\/a> to find them.<\/p>\n

If you want a version that doesn’t show the solutions, or shows a puzzle every week instead of every day, um, sorry, I didn’t make one of those. Hit reply and drop me a line, so I know someone’s interested, and I’ll put one together!<\/p>\n

The puzzles in the gadget and on the website all come from a CD-ROM with 4 million puzzles<\/a> (and their solutions), and will work with any modern computer system. You can grab it for only $14.99.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This is a back-issue of this website’s newsletter] Let me talk about powers of ten first, then about cryptarithms. My wife asked me to prepare some worksheets so my son could practice multiplying and dividing powers fo ten. I figured, why make just one or two worksheets when I can make a Worksheet Generator that … Continue reading Newsletter #36 : Cryptarithms and Powers Of 10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}