{"id":730,"date":"2013-10-29T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:12:10","slug":"a-simpler-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/a-simpler-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simpler Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[This is a back-issue of one of this site’s newsletters<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

Last week, I emailed you a way to solve a simple math puzzle – how do you find a rectangle whose area equals its perimeter?<\/p>\n

I took the puzzle, mixed in a little bit of algebra, and voila! A puzzle solution factory popped out, letting you generate rectangles from pythagorean triplets.<\/p>\n

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That’s all well and good if you happen to know a lot of pythagorean triplets (or know a formula for generating them – I’ll tell you one next week). If not, though, my solution isn’t all that useful.<\/p>\n

So, this week, I’ve written up a simpler way to solve the same puzzle. Read about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s always more than one way to skin a cat, as they say, and there’s always more than one way to solve a math problem. And the simplest way isn’t always the first one you think of, nor is it always the one you might have learnt from your teachers!<\/p>\n

Game Of The Week:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This past couple of weeks, I’ve been getting emails about my traffic jam game<\/a>. One from a teacher who uses the game in class, and another from a parent whose 7 year old wanted a math games party! How awesome is that!<\/p>\n

Can you get the red car out?<\/p>\n

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