{"id":283,"date":"2010-10-24T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T02:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:14:00","slug":"newsletter-41-water-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/newsletter-41-water-and-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #41 : Water and Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--  body { font-size : 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } a { font-size: 11px; color: #ff6600; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; } a:visited { color: #666666; } a:hover {  text-decoration: underline; } p { font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; } h1 {font-weight: bold; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;} h2 {font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;} h3 {font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; margin:0px; padding:0px;} h4 {font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; margin:0px; padding:0px;} hr {width : 100%; height : 1px; color: #000000; size:1px;} .forwardform {margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 0;} .forwardinput {margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 0;} .forwardsubmit {margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 0;} div.emailfooter { font-size : 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } div.emailfooter a { font-size: 11px; color: #ff6600; font-style: normal; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; }  --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Measuring\u00a0Water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a classic puzzle where you have to measure out a given volume of water &#8211; say 3 oz. To do this, you are given two cups. Unfortunately, the cups have no markings, and they measure 4 oz and 5 oz! How can you make 3 oz? The solution is to pour water from cup to cup, and to and from a source of water, so as to eventually have 3 oz in one of the cups.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/measure-that-volume-puzzle.html?utm_source=dmmgfk-41&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-41-measure&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-41\">very latest page<\/a> from Dr Mike&#8217;s Math games for Kids, I&#8217;ve put a version of this puzzle you can play online. Two versions, in fact &#8211; one with two cups, and one with three. There&#8217;s also some brief tips for how to use this puzzle offline.<\/p>\n<p>So have fun measuring water!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last month, I mentioned that Dr Mike&#8217;s Math Games for Kids had gained a little press coverage. In fact, the website has been in the newspapers enough so that it meets &#8211; just &#8211; Wikipedia&#8217;s criteria for &#8220;notability&#8221;. Perhaps it&#8217;s time for Wikipedia to have an article on Dr Mike&#8217;s Math Games for Kids? If you&#8217;re a Wikipediam, and you&#8217;d like to be the one to start the article, hop over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/wikipedian-wanted\/?utm_source=dmmgfk-41&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-41-wikipedia&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-41\">this blog post<\/a> to see how!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blog Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some other blog posts in the past month :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/benoit-mandelbrot-rest-in-peace\/?utm_source=dmmgfk-41&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-41-mandelbrot&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-41\">Beno\u00eet Mandelbrot \u2013 Rest In Peace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/science-education-and-political-choices\/?utm_source=dmmgfk-41&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-41-science-ed&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-41\">Science Education And Political Choices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/estimation-and-logic\/?utm_source=dmmgfk-41&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=dmmgfk-41-science-ed&amp;utm_campaign=dmmgfk-41\">Estimation and Logic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually announce blog posts to this newsletter. If you are keen to follow the Dr Mike&#8217;s Math Games for Kids Blog, you can subscribe to the RSS feed, follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mike40033\">Twitter<\/a>, or join this site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reqs.php#!\/pages\/Dr-Mikes-Math-Games-for-Kids\/70173834644\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s all for today! Have a great week ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measuring\u00a0Water There&#8217;s a classic puzzle where you have to measure out a given volume of water &#8211; say 3 oz. To do this, you are given two cups. Unfortunately, the cups have no markings, and they measure 4 oz and 5 oz! How can you make 3 oz? The solution is to pour water from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/newsletter-41-water-and-wikipedia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter #41 : Water and Wikipedia<\/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\/283"}],"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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}