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Hare & Hounds

Hare & Hounds This classic two-player strategy game was popular in medieval northern Europe until the 19th century. It’s also known by many other names, including the Soldier’s Game, the French Military Game, and The Devil Among Tailors, to name just a few[1].  If you’re interested in combinatorics or graph theory, this might be the game for you! Play against

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Mind Reading with Bases

In Mind Reading with Math we showed how you could use binary to read someone’s mind.   For that activity, we used a set of cards representing the first four binary place values: 8, 4, 2, 1. Binary only has two digits: “1” or “0” (which could also be thought of as “yes” or “no”).  This made our mind reading trick

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Math Communities Blog

Each week, we update our blog with a detailed look into a math activity as well as an article showing a unique look into math education and online learning. Posts added Thursdays at 7pm PT (Los Angeles Timezone).

Educators, do you have an idea you’d love to share? Contact us below to submit to our blog! 

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Our weekly newsletter features upcoming joyful math activities and new MathCommunities.org blog posts. View previous issues by clicking on the image archive to the right.

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Math Circular

Coming in late 2020! The semi-annual Math Circular magazine collects stories, activities, and experiences from math professionals nationwide. 

While waiting for the first issue of the Math Circular, you can browse back issues of the previous version of our magazine, the MTCircular, which was published from 2011 to 2019.

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