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Happy Days premiered 50 years ago this month.
Shifted to today, the same show would be portraying the long-lost days of 2005.
I’ve stopped posting, but if you enjoyed anything I ever did here, you need to ask someone to buy this book for you this holiday season.
@WaltHickey has written the definitive book for all pop culture math nerds everywhere.
Last night’s Powerball was a $1 billion jackpot, just the third time the jackpot reached this amount. One ticket had the correct numbers: 7-10-11-13-24 (with a Powerball of 24).
Can you write a mathematical rule for the sequence 7-10-11-13-24?
Today’s source: floridatoday.com/story/news/…
The winner could choose the full $1.08 billion paid over 30 years, or a one-time payout of $558.1 million.
Which would you choose?
Two years ago, a pair of lionhead rabbits were abandoned in Wilton Manors, FL and started breeding. Residents now estimate up to 100 of the animals are roaming free.
What is the monthly growth rate of the rabbit population?
Today’s source: washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
A certain Italian mathematician might have thoughts on this situation.
A number of African countries are reaching “95-95-95” targets: 95% of people with HIV know their status, 95% of those are on lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, and 95% of those see their HIV being virally suppressed.
What percent of those with HIV see it virally suppressed?
Today’s source: unaids.org/en/resources/docu…
Botswana, Eswatini, Rwanda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe have already achieved the 95–95–95 targets, and at least 16 other countries are close to doing so.
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Check out the winning performance for the @stevenstrogatz Prize in Math Communication, high schooler Zoë Nadal with her ‘Zero’s Lament’
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Wrapping up a great week of #mathinthemountains. Huge thanks to @PaulAZeitz, @AChung, @JamesTanton, and all the amazing instructors! Hope to be back next summer!
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16-year-old graduating senior Maliq Barnes has been accepted at 170 colleges and has been offered a total of $9 million in scholarships directly from those schools.
How much is the average college offering him?
Today’s source: nbcdfw.com/news/national-int…
Barnes is on the track and basketball teams, is bilingual in English and Spanish, is president of National Honor Society, and holds a 4.98 GPA.
Our 11-person math department has an opening for the first time in years. Come teach with me! PM for details.
Friendly department, willing to share plans and resources. Common assessments are set and discussed in weekly PLCs.
Our coordinator is NBCT certified PAEMST awardee who visits buildings and leads math-centric PD that stretches across a year. The last two years have been focused on Building Thinking Classrooms and Questioning techniques.
Sprite is the most popular lemon-lime soda by far, as shown in the pie chart below. Pepsi has stopped making Sierra Mist and is introducing Starry, a drink “softer and sweeter than Sprite.”
What are the central angles for the pie chart?
Today’s source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Starry will replace Mountain Dew as the official soda of the NBA this season, as Pepsi makes a push to get the new soda into people’s hands.
A Louisiana woman has set the world record for largest Afro, measuring 5.41 feet in circumference.
Assume her head is 70 cubic inches. How many cubic inches of hair is she sporting?
Today’s source: www-theadvocate-com.cdn.ampp…
I did not wake up expecting to Google the volume of a human head, but here we are. Excited to see what the algorithm suggests I shop for next week.