I like this little writeup on Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School from Forbes. It pithily gets into the consequences of having a system that’s so standardized that [...]
Things are crazy busy, and haven’t posted in too long. I’m not going to change that in any serious way at the moment, but when xkcd throws up something this topical, I have a [...]
Two brief announcements. First, the coolest new thing on the internet. This is an interactive update to the old powers of 10 video, and the kind of thing you can spend a lot of [...]
And making money in Vegas is a bad long term life plan. It doesn’t matter what your “strategy” is. These games of chance are built around a simple premise: no matter who you [...]
It was the culmination of a lot of work, and now it’s over. The conclusion: Seattle’s first Julia Robinson Festival was amazing. We had 150 students and 50 volunteers working [...]
Check out the new Best of the Blog page! It’s a place to find some of our favorite lessons, videos, commentary and inspiration since we’ve been writing here. For those in readers, the full link is here: [...]
This is the Towers of Hanoi. The puzzle is almost intuitive: how can you move the tower from the left peg to the right without placing any larger disks on top of any smaller [...]
I've often had a gut feeling that we actually invest life into math questions that grab us. Here' s a question I like: Question: How does a bishop behave on a torus chess board?
I was planning to redo this video, but with the Julia Robinson Festival coming up on Sunday, it’s going to be a while before I get it together, so here it is, as it is. Let me [...]
Looking for another reason to sign up for the Julia Robinson Math Festival, happening this Sunday, March 18? https://mathforlove1.wpenginepowered.com/events-festival Nickolai Pirak is a professional juggler from Seattle who will be giving [...]
We are expanding our class offerings at the Robinson Center, with Saturday classes now available for students K-11. Registration opened today, and these classes have a way of filling up fast! Registration and class info is here: [...]
28325674549 A hand made a number. It joined one little stone to another, one thunderclap to another, one fallen eagle to another, one arrowhead to another, and then with the patience of granite the hand made a double incision, two wounds [...]
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