Category Archives: Fun with Mathematics

Math for Love: Daniel Finkel way !!! :-) :-) :-)

January 2, 2018 – 7:05 am

A math blog, I would request my students/readers to read and solve/contribute regularly:

https://mathforlove.com

https://mathforlove.com/2018/01/mathematician-at-play-puzzle-1/

Thanks Dan for allowing me to share your blog(s)/website(s)!

Nalin Pithwa.

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Math in Australia :-) A Dingo ate my Math Book !

December 31, 2017 – 2:39 pm

AMS (American Mathematical Society) link:

http://bookstore.ams.org/mbk-106/?_ga=2.200133421.246483269.1514729371-1691390747.1513651870

Amazon India link:

https://www.amazon.in/Dingo-Ate-Math-Book-Mathematics/dp/1470435217/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514731044&sr=1-1&keywords=a+dingo+ate+my+math+book

comment: sheer joy…🙂 🙂 🙂

— I am just waiting for the book to be available in Amazon India. ! —- Nalin Pithwa.

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Xmas prize from Colleen Young :-)

December 24, 2017 – 9:48 pm

https://colleenyoung.wordpress.com/2017/12/24/diffy/

Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays!

Nalin Pithwa

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The Association of Mathematics Teachers of India

December 14, 2017 – 9:33 pm

https://www.amtionline.com/book_list

(I found this v nice organization and the list of its v cheap, high quality publications in Math for kids in a blog of Mr. Gaurish Korpal.)

Quite frankly, these mathematics teachers are doing/have done profound service to India’s budding, aspiring generations of child mathematicians!! 🙂 And, also to many parents in India, who mostly (in my personal opinion) think of only law, engineering, and medicine as the only respectable professions…:-( like Professor “Virus” of the famous movie, Three Idiots ! 🙂

Hats off to AMTI !!!

Nalin Pithwa.

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Childhood Maths — Gaurish Korpal’s blog

December 14, 2017 – 9:26 pm

https://gaurish4math.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/childhood-maths-i/

https://gaurish4math.wordpress.com/2017/12/14/childhood-maths-ii/

Inspirational to all kids, and hopefully, educative to Indian parents also, if I may add…

Thanks Mr. Gaurish Korpal.

from Nalin Pithwa.

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Math is fun: website

November 5, 2017 – 5:36 pm

https://colleenyoung.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/math-is-fun/

With thanks and regards to Colleen Young.

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Household chores for mathematicians!!! :-)

November 1, 2017 – 7:43 pm

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/household-chores-for-mathematicians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fmath+%28Topic%3A+Math%29

Thanks to Evelyn Lamb and Scientific American. 🙂

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The infinite hotel paradox : due Jeff Dekofsky

October 27, 2017 – 3:11 pm

This hardcore stuff about “infinity” , quite nicely, explained was pointed out to me by my ISC XII student, Mr. Utkarsh Malhotra! 🙂

 

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A test about tests!

October 26, 2017 – 2:22 am

“We had to answer all the questions, just “Yes” or “No”.” Fran explained. “The first paper I got only five wrong.”

Ben smiled. “That sounds good. What about the other paper?”

“Tough, but the same number of questions,” the girl replied. “I got just a third of them wrong, so over all I got 75 percent right for the two papers.”

How many questions in each paper?

Cheers,

Nalin Pithwa.

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Daddy knows best!

October 25, 2017 – 11:32 am

“It’s only teenage infatuation,” Tom declared. “I do like Bob, but he is double your age.”

“Come on, Dad, that’s nothing these days,” Cathy replied. “He doesn’t look it, and anyway three years ago the digits of my age added up to the same as the digits of his age did.”

What they call a non-sequitur? How old was she?

Reference: Entertaining Mathematical Teasers, and how to solve them by J.A.H. Hunter, Dover Publications Inc., New York, available at Amazon India.

Cheers,

Nalin Pithwa.

 

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