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p daily
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p math jokes |
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Here are some cool math links that might
be of interest to some of you...
 topics
in math |
math
for morons like us |
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| key
stroke guide for TI calculators |
dogpile.com |
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| NCTM
web page |
truth
tables |
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| NCTM
standards |
pi symbol web
page |
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| mathSurf |
online math games |
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| funny
farm |
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| (okay, so it's not strictly math but it is problem solving) |
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A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a
street cafe
watching
people going in and coming out of the house on
the other side
of the street.
First they see two people going into the house. Time passes.
After a while they
notice three persons coming out of the house.
The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate".
The Biologist's conclusion: "They have reproduced".
The Mathematician: "If now exactly 1 person enters the house then
it will be empty
again."
My all-time favorite...
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture
with a herd of
sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest
possible amount
of fence.
The engineer is first. He herds the sheep into a circle and then
puts the fence
around them, declaring, "A circle will use the least
fence for a given
area, so this is the best solution."
The physicist is next. She creates a circular fence of infinite
radius around the
sheep, and then draws the fence tight around the
herd, declaring,
"This will give the smallest circular fence around
the herd."
The mathematician is last. After giving the problem a little
thought, he puts
a small fence around himself and then declares, "I
define myself to
be on the outside!"
How
many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
If k mathematicians can change a light bulb and if one more simply
watches them do it, then k+1 mathematicians will have changed the lightbulb.
Therefore, by induction, for all n in the positive integers, n mathematicians
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