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CutTheKnotMath

  1. Just posted at CTK Insights - Three Checker Game on a One Row Board. Read it at tinyurl.com/d6sbo9r at your leisure 3:00 PM May 24th via WPTweeter
  2. Not to worry. I was enchanted by your linkedin posts MT @oushirls Now I'll have to mind my math p's and q's - or should that be x's and y's? 9:24 AM May 24th via web in reply to oushirls
  3. Finally, new research: proof that pants are hotter than skirts. blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2012… Have they used math for that? 5:37 AM May 24th via web
  4. Why won't you post your polygon? @CmonMattTHINK What's the fewest number of sides such a polygon could have? I found 1 w/ 11... Fewer? 5:03 AM May 24th via web in reply to CmonMattTHINK
  5. A Russian 'revolution' (no less) in teaching kids math necn.com/05/22/12/A-Rus… 6:26 PM May 23rd via web
  6. They are not allowed @panlepan What about allowing a double point? 6:10 PM May 23rd via web in reply to panlepan
  7. Just posted at CTK Insights - A Crooked Polygon. Read it at tinyurl.com/ch8vqox at your leisure 6:07 PM May 23rd via WPTweeter
  8. No. It need not be convex but, otherwise it's pretty plain, albeit crooked @BrainGAR can two sides of the polygon be coincident? 1:00 PM May 23rd via web in reply to BrainGAR
  9. From a Moscow Olympiad: find a polygon P and point O on its boundary st every straight line through O divides P into 2 pieces of equal area 12:11 PM May 23rd via web
  10. Thank you @213557538032 @CutTheKnotMath congratulations man for your blog :)) 4:33 AM May 23rd via web in reply to 213557538032
  11. Non-profit textbook movement is under way blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance… 7:19 AM May 22nd via web
  12. A Better Butterfly theorem in similar co-axial conics cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/But… 2:39 PM May 21st via web
  13. Congratulations. But do you agree with them? @tdhopper They say I'm now a Master of Operations Research. AMA. 10:29 AM May 21st via web in reply to tdhopper
  14. Why great ideas come when you aren’t trying via scimomof2 nature.com/news/why-great… Curious if mind wandering is the same as day dreaming 10:26 AM May 21st via web
  15. Just posted at CTK Insights - Engaging Math Activities for the Summer Break. Read it at tinyurl.com/c5ke6dg at your leisure 10:00 AM May 21st via WPTweeter
  16. Just posted at CTK Insights - Parity Games. Read it at tinyurl.com/6nnbytp at your leisure 9:59 AM May 21st via WPTweeter
  17. @stevenstrogatz is a newly elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences amacad.org/news/alphalist… 5:14 AM May 21st via web
  18. Can you prove that? Could not a slanted one be shorter? @mfernanj @panlepan segment parallel to side circular sector 11:11 AM May 20th via web in reply to mfernanj