Pies and Pi – the hidden formula
Pi is a wonderful, fabulous, and famously irrational number. It even knows when you’re hungry, as the below mathematical equation amply demonstrates. As comedy maths puzzlers go, this one is a little forced, but nevertheless fun to share. I confess it took The God of Whizz a few goes to figure out that Pi = [...]
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Not what you might generally expect to read on a Friday, but a reminder of an elegant geometry puzzle in today’s Financial Times letters page. Take a square of 8 x 8 units = 64 square units. Divide it into two triangles of 3 units x 8 units and two polygons with two sides of [...]
Read the whole postQuick Maths Game for a Wandering Wednesday Brain
It’s Wednesday. This Friday looks as distant as the receding memory of last weekend now feels. What to do? Try a quick maths puzzle to jolt the frontal lobes back into action, of course! Many people have heard, and some are still surprised by, the revelation that ’7′ is always the answer to the following puzzle: ‘Think of [...]
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New Scientist puzzle-setter Rob Eastaway is featured on the NCETM website in a three-part essay on ‘joined-up mathematics’, the first two instalments of which are online. Eastaway’s essay is required, and fun, reading for anyone following the directions that maths and science education are taking, with the emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) and the [...]
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