Isn’t Math Wonderful? – January 2025

2025: What a Year! Seems like every year, we have lots of fun facts to discover about the year[…]

Pesky Puzzlers 2025

PP 25.1: Do any or all: Previous Puzzlers (Some are omitted for logistical reasons.)

Curiosity Tidbits – 2025

January 13:  The fastest temperature change on record is a rise of 49 degrees (F). In two minutes, between[…]

Isn’t Math Wonderful? – September 2024

Beautiful patterns and neat results occur everywhere in mathemtics.  Here’s a combination of both that can also be used[…]

Other “Creative Fun” Submissions

Here are other submissions from the “Creative Fun” options in the 9/2/24 Mailing: Write as long a sentence as[…]

Limericks from Subscribers

A recent Pesky Puzzler (24.16) pitched out the creative challenge to write a limerick with a first line of[…]

A Cannibal Chief and His Wife

Decades ago, I taught an experimental campus-wide Seminar entitled “Creativity and Problem Solving”.  One of the early assignments was[…]

Isn’t Math Wonderful? – July 2024

1 x 1 = 1 11 x 11 = 121 111 x 111 = 12321 1111 x 1111 =[…]