{"id":173,"date":"2010-03-01T21:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:14:29","slug":"newsletter-34-sudoku-and-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/newsletter-34-sudoku-and-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #34 : Sudoku and A Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div>\n<p>[<em>This is a back-issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/newsletter\/\">this website&#8217;s newsletter<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Sudoku became popular around the same time this website went online &#8211; but somehow I never put up any sudoku puzzles on the site. I&#8217;m not sure exactly why. Perhaps I thought sudoku was just a passing fad, or perhaps there seemed to be so many other good ideas for the site&#8230; and I didn&#8217;t want to produce &#8220;just another&#8221; sudoku page.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Anyway, all you sudoku fans out there will be glad to know that, at last, Dr Mike&#8217;s Math Games for Kids has some sudoku pages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of my former math lecturers produced a bunch of printable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/sudoku-for-kids.html?utm_source=dmmgfk-34&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-34-sudoku-for-kids&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudoku Puzzles For Kids<\/a>. These are normal-sized sudoku puzzles, but with the empty squares annotated to show the best order for solving them. They should be good as a gentle introduction to the art of Sudoku.<\/li>\n<li>Since I was making a Soduku page, I decided to make three! I found an open source java applet that allows you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/play-sudoku-online.html?utm_source=dmmgfk-34&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-34-play-sudoku-online&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play Sudoku Online<\/a>, and another that acts as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/sudoku-solver.html?utm_source=dmmgfk-34&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-34-sudoku-solver&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudoku Solver<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, for some other news related to the website.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wanted to tell someone about Dr Mike&#8217;s Math Games For Kids, and found that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/?utm_source=dmmgfk-34&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-34-dmmgfk&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com<\/a> is just too long for your scrap of paper? You&#8217;ll be pleased to know that, as of about a week ago, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/?utm_source=dmmgfk-34&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-34-mgfk&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">math-games-for-kids.com<\/a>&#8221; redirects to the very same website. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll agree that&#8217;s easier to remember!<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?utm_source=dmmgfk-34&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-34-blog&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Mike&#8217;s Math Games for Kids Blog<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be including there occasional posts on math education, and short puzzles I think of that can&#8217;t quite fill a whole page on the main site.<\/p>\n<p>The blog has a nice &#8220;chocolate&#8221; look and feel, a bit like a leather-bound notebook. If you think I should transfer this &#8220;look&#8221; to the main site, visit the blog, and vote in the poll you&#8217;ll find in the sidebar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s all for now! Have fun Sudokuing away!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is a back-issue of this website&#8217;s newsletter] Sudoku became popular around the same time this website went online &#8211; but somehow I never put up any sudoku puzzles on the site. I&#8217;m not sure exactly why. Perhaps I thought sudoku was just a passing fad, or perhaps there seemed to be so many other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/newsletter-34-sudoku-and-a-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter #34 : Sudoku and A Blog<\/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\/173"}],"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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}