Rabu, 30 Maret 2011

Metal brainteasers

Monkey Pod games produces high-quality, yet affordable wooden and metal brain teasers and puzzles. I got to review their Metal Brain Teasers Gift Set II. It has four things in it.


These were lots of fun to try to figure out. There's a double horseshoe with a ring that I was able to figure out eventually. This set of two pins was the easiest to solve:


The other two were harder (free the heart, and separate the two M-shapes). My hubby spent quite a while with the M-shapes but eventually got the solution for that one from their website.

Like I've said before, they make excellent gifts. This set comes in a nice wooden box but you could, if you wanted to, split the gifts and give just one brainteaser to three different children—or adults.

They also sell two other metal brainteaser sets:

Monkey Pod Games also has tons of wooden puzzles and brainteasers, some of them less than $10. Check them out! Hey, I got to playing around with Blogger's Amazon tool and found some images for you real quick... click for more info.

The Star Puzzle

Soma Cube 3d - Large

Domino Cube

The Perplexing X in a Box

Selasa, 29 Maret 2011

Math Teachers at Play #36

I'm terribly sorry I forgot to mention Math Teachers at Play carnival this last time it was published (which is over a week ago). I noticed it in the morning, was gone for part of the day, and then forgot about it. The carnival looks great and is filled with lots of nice posts about all sorts of things, related to mathematics... please go check it out, and enjoy!


Math Teachers at Play carnival #36

Senin, 28 Maret 2011

Math genius at age 12

Some of you might enjoy reading this article... a 12-year old boy (Jacob Barnett) is about done studying college-level studies in astrophysics and they want him to start doing research. He's also mildly autistic.

Genius at work: 12-year-old is studying at IUPUI


IUPUI is interested in him moving from the classroom into a funded researcher's position.
"We have told him that after this semester . . . enough of the book work. You are here to do some science," said IUPUI physics Professor John Ross, who vows to help find some grant funding to support Jake and his work.
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