Tag Archive: numbers


Pi Day!

3/14

Of course one could hazard that we still have 7 years to go until… 3/14/15

Then there are others who might say that 3/14/16 is a more correctly rounded day.

What I really want to know is the one geek in Shakespearian time who was into this.

“Good my Lord, Forsooth, is not the date and time Marche the 14th in this the year of our Lord 1592?
“Roderick you oaf, why must thou quest me thus at 6:53…nay now 6:54 in the morn?”

And Roderick found himself having crap thrown at him and shortly thereafter dying of the black plague.

Next useless time and date on December 24th and 9pm (Eastern standard time)

I’m a math geek

I came across this on youtube (of course).

I’m always looking for neat math tricks and shortcuts.

This is actually a not-so-new solution to multiplying big numbers by hand.

It’s really impressive. Be patient. The setup takes a bit but you’ll see once everything is gridded, it makes multiplication sooooo much easier.

Today it was reported that most 10th graders in Washington state can not pass the Math state expectiations.

I blame a severe lack of the good Sesame Street stuff. Oh sure, it still comes around in rotation (at least some of it)… but the good stuff… not as often.

Some favourites:

Hopefully we can all count now.

Personally, I love these because they fire off synapses deep in my brain that have a warm nostalgic buzz to them.

Oh, and in case you really can’t figure it out…

The answers to my questions