Consensus: Ground Hog (a.k.a. Woodchuck; a.k.a Whistle Pig, apparently)
Author: Larry Campbell
Cute & Adorable Winner
Take Heed
Anger Management
Please don’t let this delay make you mad. 🙂
Cartoons, Numbers, and Mathematics
Within roughly 24 hours in this past week, I ran into two cartoons that dealt with topics we have kicked around before, one of them as recently as the last column. They both dealt with common misconceptions and/or favorite complaints about mathematics. And they were both just varied enough that I thought taking another look […]
Learning to Hate Math?
Drawn Into the Fun It all started with one of those “if you get this, you are a critical thinker” brain teasers posted on Facebook. I should have moved on, but I love brain teasers and the ‘critical thinker’ part beckoned. It eventually more/less ended with one of my friends jokingly telling me that I […]
Brain Teasers – Sep/Oct 2020
NOTE: Newest BTs in red, Bonuses in blue, comments in green, updates in purple. Mary’s mother had three daughters. The first two were named April and May. What was the name of the third daughter? A cheetah was clocked running 550 feet in 10 seconds. About how many miles per hour is that? Find a […]
We’re Here to Help!!
(Now, I’ve added another worry!)
Eating Out in a Pandemic
(But, I hope the coffee on the wall isn’t hers.)
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Jul/Aug 20 BTs
REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration, please feel free to ask! Two is company and three is a crowd. 🙂 What are four and five? 9 (Nine). Frank Green, Rita Barger, Barb Blue, Amy Ragsdale a) Find the smallest integer that […]
