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Problems, Questions, and Puzzles to spark discussion and argument in the maths classroom.

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Sure, you can ask, "How many?"

But wouldn't you rather see if your students can figure out what kind of fruit is each cube?


.: [MS Math], [internet], [How Many?].

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Let's say I'm building these toothpick figures. How many toothpicks will I need for figure #10?

Explain how you figured it out.

Let's see how many different ways
people come up with. Ok Twitter, flex! 💪




.: [MS Math], [internet], [How Many?].

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An unexpectedly excellent question popped out of a very odd talk today:

If you take the date xx/yy/zz , how many true triangles can you make in the year 2021 with dimensions xx/yy/zz?

And how many of them are right triangles?


.: [GEOM], [Ed Southall], [How Many?].

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How many quadratic trinomials \(q(x)\) can you find such that both \( q(x) \) and \( q(x) + 1\) are factorable into two binomials?

#WonderWithMe


.: [ALG2], [Matt Enlow], [How Many?].
that's it.