Tag Archives: graphs

Penn Alexander math club: map coloring

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Brent

Today in math club I had the students explore map coloring. I tried to leave it as open-ended as possible to start—I just said that we were going to draw maps with countries, and try to give each country a … Continue reading →

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Predicting pi: pretty graphs and convergents

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Brent

Recall the challenge I posed in a previous post: given the sequence of integers , what can you learn about (assuming you didn’t know anything about it before)? The answer, as explained in another post, is that you can learn … Continue reading →

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