The Summer Challenge Problem of the Week

“How do you keep students engaged in math while they are having fun?” We think we have come up with the perfect solution for teachers and parents, the What if Math Summer Challenge. Choose a Lab from the Explore menu and mail it to your students. They learn problem solving, spreadsheets, coding, a lot of …

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A Maker of Patterns

G.H. Hardy, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century wrote this: A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the …

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