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Back in 2018 Annie Perkins posted this drawing: We did a project talking about it back then, but I decided to revisit it today with my younger son. First we recreated part of the drawing using our Zometool set, and then I had my son share his thoughts about the shapes it is always Continue reading Revisiting one of Annie Perkins s drawings
With school nearly over for the year I was looking for some ideas to explore with my younger son over the summer. I thought some introductory trig ideas might be fun since he saw some basic right triangle trig inn his math class at school this year. The first thing that came to mind for Continue reading An introdution to sin(x) and cos(x) with my younger son
I saw a tweet from Amy Hogan this morning that reminded me of an old project: The old project is here: And Grant s video is here: Before we started the project today, I had my son watch Grant s video. Here are some of his takeaways: Now we tried to see if we could find a Continue reading Revisiting Grant Sanderson s fair division video thanks to an Amy Hogan tweet
I saw an interesting tweet from Matt Enlow earlier today and thought it would be fun to have my younger son try out the problem: One bit of hesitation I had was that I didn t know if my son had seen rational functions in school or not, so we started with an overview of the Continue reading Having my younger son try out Matt Enlow s algebra inequality problem
Last week I did a brief introduction to the Poisson distribution with my younger son. That project is here: https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/introducing-some-basic-ideas-about-the-poisson-distribution-to-my-younger-son/ Today I dove in a little more to see if he could see some of the patterns that emerge in the distribution. We started with a quick review and a look at data from a…
For our project today, I though it would be fun to talk about the Poisson distribution. For me it is one of the most interesting and important ideas in probability. This question, for instance, is fascinating - If a random event happens on average once per time period, what is the probability that it happens Continue reading Introducing some basic ideas about the Poisson distribution to my younger…
Last week I learned about an really interesting probability problem from Pasquale Cirillo: Today I asked him to think about the problem while I was out and when I got back home he walked me through his solution: The last video shows his general approach now he calculated the asnwer: To wrap up I Continue reading Having my son talk through an interesting probability problem from Pasquale Cirillo
Yesterday my younger son and I talked through this fun problem I learned from Pasquale Cirillo: Our project is here: https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2021/05/01/talking-through-a-neat-introductory-probability-expected-value-problem-from-pasquale-cirillo-with-my-younger-son/ and Cirillo s discussion of the problem is here: Yesterday we did not get to the optimal solution, but rather looked at…
This problem was posted by Pasquale Cirillo last week and I thought it would be great to talk through with my son: This is the video where Cirillo talks through the problem if you want to see his full solution: I d asked my son to think about it a bit ahead of us sitting down Continue reading Talking through a neat introductory probability / expected value problem from Pasquale Cirillo with my…
Yesterday we did a project on this fun problem from Futility Closet: Today we finished the project by talking about the 2nd part of the problem and then having a discussion about why the answers to the two questions were different. Unfortunately there were two camera goofs by me filming this project forgetting to Continue reading The paradox of the 2nd ace part 2