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It should come to no surprise that I enjoy puzzle squares. During grad school, I came to appreciate math puzzle squares thanks to the classes I took. What’s funny is that I actually discovered KenKen (the puzzle I discussed in the last blog) in my Mathematics in Pop Culture and Media class, although I didn’tContinue reading “The tale of the MATHadazzle Bakery”

You’ve probably seen Latin square puzzles here or there. For example, Sudoku is one of the most popular Latin square puzzles. Sudoku even has its own derivatives: Jigsaw Sudoku and Killer Sudoku. To remind you of what a Latin square is, it is an n x n arrangement of n different symbols such that eachContinue reading “KenKen/Calcudoku: Cool Math Latin Squares”

WARNING: This is a long post. Triangles are the simplest polygon: a closed figure consisting of three vertices (the corners) with line segments connecting them (the sides/edges). So something as simple as this can actually be crazy? Well based on the last article, it certainly seems that way, because there’s a way to relate theContinue reading “How crazy triangles actually are”

I think we can all agree that the Pythagorean Theorem is one of mathematics’s most famous theorems. Now the mention of the Pythagorean Theorem usually has the average denizen jumping to the famous equation of “a2 + b2 = c2“. However, upon being asked about what each variable stands for, they’ll freeze. Additionally, to makeContinue reading “Garfield and the Pythagorean Theorem”

If you’re here from LaserBelch’s stream, I bet you read that title with his notification alert. Anyway, there’s something to be said about my fascination with prime numbers. Recall that a prime number is a natural number with exactly two factors: 1 and itself. It all starts back in second grade when I had aContinue reading “Prime Gaming”

Dear lord. Apparently another “viral math problem” is on the loose. Let’s see… Oh no… The reason I dread it is because there was one from the year before that is basically identical aside from the numbers: Ugh… why do I hate these types of “problems”? They’re purposefully ambiguous to effectively divide the internet, punContinue reading “Not this again…”

Today would have marked our family dog’s 15th birthday, so I figured I talk about something relating to birthdays… cake! During the lone summer I spent at grad school, I took a four-day workshop-esque class on Mathematical Modeling. One of the professors happened to be my advisor, and he tasked me with discussing and teachingContinue reading “How to cut a cake… with a caveat”

I honestly cannot say how I came to learn how to differentiate Quadrilaterals from each other, although I can remember that I started knowing the special ones since third grade. By the time I got to take Geometry in freshman year of high school, I knew that Rectangles had four right angles, Rhombuses had fourContinue reading “Quadrilateral Storytelling”

I recently came across a video discussing the Cubic Formula, specifically the one published by Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano. Before I talk about the video, I would like to talk a bit about the channel. The eponymous mathologer, Burkard Polster, is a mathematics professor at Monach University in Melbourne, Australia. He has uploaded a multitudeContinue reading “The Cubic Formula Enigma”