Spontaneous #anyqs. Karen and Gail wondered: how many cupcakes do we need?
Meat Math! #anyqs?
BTW, the kielbasa was delicious. Bake at 350 with enough water to not evaporate (~2 c), seasoning if you want (for me, bay leaf, pepper). Remove, simmer in beer (stout is my preference) in the pan or a crock pot.
Humble Bundle Math
There’s a great music humble bundle on right now. (Sometimes it’s software, or games.) You pick a donation amount, and then split up the money amongst the authors/musicians, the charities, and the humble bundle folks.
But I love how the divvy applet works. Raises some nice algebraic questions for me.
How about you? #anyqs?
Oh! I was just plying with lemniscates yesterday in GeoGebra. (x^2+y^2)^2=2c^2(x^2-y^2) is very interesting.
Could students watch this and see the geometric property being referenced?
#anyqs
Tale of Two Hot Dogs #anyqs
Something about this situation made my mathey-sense tingle and compulsed me to buy and cook these two not quite similar hot dogs. Any questions? (At 101qs.com)
Dressed up the reptile for #anyqs at 101qs.com. What do you think - is there any perplexity in this?
Popcorn #Anyqs
Our terrific local movie theatre, Cinema Carousel, has a popcorn deal where you can buy a bucket and get 2 refills per visit for about half a year. We love movies and popcorn, so we have been buying these identically sized buckets for years. Like the winter bucket:
But when we went to the Avengers-
(It was AWESOME.
Down, inner fanboy, down!)
-there was a new, visibly smaller bucket.
The ticket seller said, “oh they just look smaller.” It’s like he knew I was a math teacher and would now have to buy it.
Hmmm.
Hmmm.
What do you think? Can you tell from projection/cross sectional area? Is it obvious? What matters more, width or height?
For those who need to measure. Do you need to measure?
Average Score #ANYQS
One of the great things about Drop7 (others - puzzley problem solving, it is free!) is that it gives excellent data. I thought it was cool that my average budged so little after these two games, but… any questions?
BTW, I’m stuck with a max score in the high 300Ks. If you have any tips…
