"Geometry re-Construction"
(from January 24, 2014)
"Cast-aways"
A tribute to the Professor, Russell Johnson (1924 - 2014)
(from January 16, 2014)
"Surface area and thinking outside the box"
****Find more math cartoons in the webcomic gallery at mathplane.com
(from January 10th, 2014)
"Factorials!"
English grammar students try to learn factorials!
Here are 4 factorial questions:
1) For integers > 1, what is (n - 1)! / (n - 2)! ?
2) For integers > 1, what is (n + 1)! / (n - 1)! ?
3) What is 6! 5! / 4! 3! ?
4) What are the last three digits of 20! ?
1) For integers > 1, what is (n - 1)! / (n - 2)! ?
2) For integers > 1, what is (n + 1)! / (n - 1)! ?
3) What is 6! 5! / 4! 3! ?
4) What are the last three digits of 20! ?
and, more math topics...
(from January 1, 2014)
"2 - 0 - 1 - 4 "
A math exercise:
Using 2, 0, 1, 4 and any combination of math symbols/operations/functions, write equations that compute to every number between 1 and 25.
(***for an extra challenge, try the same for 26 - 50)
Hints and a set of solutions are in the destinations gate
