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The Golden Ratio, Writing Prompts
Monday, May 26, 2008
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It's a quiet day today...for a Monday. It's Memorial Day here in the US, which means well over half of The Problem Site's traffic is on school vacation.
For teachers who are looking for some enrichment activities to help round out the school year, I have a couple interesting things for you.
The Golden Ratio
This is a series of pages which explore some of the fun mathematical properties of the number which is often referred to as The Golden Ratio, The Golden Section, or phi (φ). Take some time to browse the pages yourself, and see if you have students who would find it valuable and interesting to explore the concepts on these pages.
Alphabet Soup
Over at Fifteen Minutes Of Fiction, the weekly writing prompts are going to be "easier" than usual for the next few months. Each week writers will be given a different letter of the alphabet, and they will have to select a person, place, or thing beginning with that letter to write about.
This is very open-ended, and will be great for students (and adults!) who want to do a little bit of writing each week, but don't have a lot of time to spend on it during the summer months.Labels: golden ratio, theproblemsite, writing
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Slick Math
Thursday, May 15, 2008
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The day before yesterday I was driving to Massachusetts, and since I had time to kill (I really hate driving long distances) I got thinking about some really fun and interesting math problems with really "slick" solutions. By "slick" I mean, simple and elegant solutions.
I decided it would be nice to have a place on The Problem Site for problems like that, so last night I created a new resource for the site: Slick Math!
If you enjoy math problems with surprisingly easy solutions, you'll enjoy these pages.
 Labels: slick math, theproblemsite
posted by Douglas Twitchell at
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Games and Quizzes for Younger Children
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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A month or two ago I started work on The Problem Site: Junior Edition, a section of The Problem Site specifically designed for younger children. The games in this section deal with topics like estimation, attribute comparison, and spelling.
Since the last post here, two more games have been added to this section of the site. They are Guess It! (an estimation game) and Spell It! (a spelling game).
The spelling game is brand new; the programming was just finished this morning. So if you experience any glitches or problems with the game, please drop me a comment!
Thanks,
DougLabels: junior edition, theproblemsite
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