Posts in Other Fun Stuff

Holiday-to-Holiday Drawing & Giveaway!

Starting on Memorial Day (May 25), 2020 all the way through July 3, (with drawing on July 4th!), you will be able to enter this[…]

Tom Elpel: Five Months on the Missouri River

For more about Tom, this book, (and a look at his others), see FiveMonths.HOPSPress To see a Facebook video of Tom talking about the book, see[…]

Jerry Johnson: Humor in Mathematics – Freud Would Be Proud

For more information about this book – including ordering information – see Mathematics.Humor. For more ‘official’ information about Jerry – and some of his other books, see[…]

Top Ten Signs You Might Be A Number Weirdo

    Early one semester, I was going over the Policy Sheet with one of my new classes.  I noted the phone number among my[…]

Pi Trivia Quiz

Celebrating π – Trivia Quiz (NOTE: One of these is SO trivial, I don’t even know the answer – which one?) Which letter of the[…]

All Numbers Are Interesting – Proof

Claim:  All Numbers are Interesting Proof:  We prove this by contradiction:  Suppose there were numbers that weren’t interesting.  Collect them all up, so that now you have[…]

Lexophile, the Word

“Lexophile” describes one who has a love for words and wordplay, such as “you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish”, or “To[…]

Lexophiles? (aka Dad Jokes?)

“Lexophile” describes one who has a love for words, such as “you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish”, or “To write with[…]

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