My body math index
A miscalculation at a routine health screening presents a tantalizing mathematical mystery.
MathA collection of 8 posts
Happy Pi Day!
My first summer job was in a cabinetry shop. I worked there all three summers throughout high school. My boss was a crusty old shop teacher whose sense of humor and store of aphorisms had stopped...
Cubist writing
I just did a word count on the novel I (to all intents and purposes) started writing yesterday. Here's what WordPerfect told me: Words: 1000 Sentences: 64 Two perfect cubes. I'll bet...
A suggestion for Rand McNally
There are plenty of sources that list the distances of various stars from Earth, but does anyone know of a source for looking up the distances of stars from one another? If not, I may have...
Is that expressed in Fig Newtons of force?
Hey, kids! Wondering why you should bother studying science and math? So you can work out the formula to describe the perfect bacon butty! N = C + {fb(cm) · fb(tc)} + fb(Ts) + fc · ta...
If no child is left behind, then how many children are left behind? Show your work
You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?...