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Welcome and thanks for joining!
Happy to see you here! Drop a reply down below to say hi and introduce yourself. I'll start. I'm Ian and my 10yo daughter said she wanted to be a scientist but she hates math. I said, that's fine if you don't like it, but give me a chance to show you what it really is before you decide. Six months later she's coming up with conjectures and asking me to explain calculus to her. So i thought I'd start a community to help others see that math and science are about fun, creativity and curiosity.
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Lateral Thinking
The first in series on problem solving strategies - a technique called Lateral Thinking that can be used to solve problems in a creative way by challenging assumptions. This technique can be applied to almost any problem that you come across in life, work and school.
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The German Tank Problem
I've been working on new content - Math and Science in History and Problem Solving Strategies. These will end up in classrooms but for now I'll drop them in the feed. This one goes out to Evan. I hope it makes sense and is interesting
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How can you be so obtuse?
Weekly(?) challenge - Can you cut up an obtuse triangle into only smaller acute triangles? How many smaller triangles do you need? An obtuse triangle has one angle bigger than 90°. A 90° angle is neither acute nor obtuse. At the bottom are two examples that don't work and why.
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