Comments on: Math Homework I Wish I Still Got

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:59:22 +0000

Check Project Eureka (http://projecteureka.org/problem) out, you can always find some interesting problems there. That’s what I do when I feel the need for a brain gym’n'tonic.

By: MyMathGenius

MyMathGenius — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:49:31 +0000

Its sad that not many people take math as an enjoyable activity anymore….:(

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:52:00 +0000

I love puzzles in general, but some are my Achilles’ Heel. Balance problems are one such type; diagramless crosswords are another.

By: merops

merops — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:30:00 +0000

Volume of a tank? Who cares about that? Calculus for me was *central* in HS. It was everything earlier mathematics was building up to. It described nature: it allowed you to calculate rates of change, distance travelled with variable v, etc, etc. The universe in simple mathematical rules!

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:35:00 +0000

i completely agree with the calculus! really, when WOULD you need to find the volume of an oddly-shaped tank that is being drained and filled at the same time? especially when you could just put some kind of electronic monitor in it. i really didn’t like calculus.

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:32:00 +0000

Ugh! Math for me has always been like trying to learn Mandarin from a Russian text book. And I think the clown is mocking me.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:07:00 +0000

I love math and any sort of math puzzle you can come up with (can’t promise to solve them – just to love them).

I hate the IQ test ads.
“Must not solve. Will lead to spam”

By: dorie

dorie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:11:00 +0000

i started with x and x+1 based on the hints given, and started totalling everything based on X. circle on the right is then 2x+1 and so on. that was fun. :-)

By: Bri

Bri — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:57:00 +0000

@ Jilayne:

Nope, I just solved the one here. I could have left work an hour ago, but I got busy surfing and just as I was about to leave I saw this and had to stay until I finished it.

Am I the only one who prefers to work with letters over shapes? I reassigned all the shapes to be letters A-G while solving. I guess it takes extra time, but my brain can work around it faster.

By: Lorie

Lorie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:14:00 +0000

I loved geometric proofs. We’d get a diagram of eight or nine intersecting lines and have to use theorems to prove that an angle on one end of the tangled mess was equal to an angle on the other end through a complex series of logical deductions.
My son tells me this isn’t done any more – and I was so looking forward to checking his homework.