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Title: Summer camps: a fun way to reinforce math skills.(Report)
Author: Mercedes Tichenor
Publication: Journal of Instructional Psychology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2010
Publisher: George Uhlig Publisher
Volume: 37Issue: 1Page: 71(5)

Article Type: Report

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Written expecially for math instructors. Devoted to the lighter side of mathematics. Featuring thought-provoking, stimulating, and wit-sharpening games, puzzles, and articles that challenge the mental agility of everyone who enjoys the intricacies of mathematics. This book is a sampler and it consists of pages 81-160! ... Read more

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This review is only an index to the contents of the issue
As co-editor of Journal of Recreational Mathematics, what I present here are the contents of this issue with no commentary. Forgive the five star ranking.

Contents of "Journal of Recreational Mathematics Volume 29(2)"

Papers, edited by Joseph S. Madachy
"Letter from the editor", Joseph S. Madachy
"Some Problems Concerning the Smarandache Deconstructive Sequence", Charles Ashbacher
"Morrie's Law and Experimental Mathematics", Ernest C. Anderson
"A Counterexample to Conjectures by Sloane and Erdos Concerning the Persistence of Numbers", Mark R. Diamond, and Daniel D. Reidpath
"Ice Numbers", Sebastien Bilodeau, and Paul M. Sommers
"Letters to the editor", Rex Gooch, Anton Hanegraaf, Charles Ashbacher, and Allan William Johnson Jr.
"A Prime Gap of Size Exactly 1000", Sol Weintraub
"An Infinite Integer Spiral", Sol Weintraub
"Apocalyptic Powers", John Rickert
"Enneagon Dissections", David Patterson
"Keplerian Triangles: Mysterium Cosmographicum", Martin Beech

Book reviews, edited by Charles Ashbacher
"Twenty Years Before the Blackboard: The Lessons and Humor of a Mathematics Teacher", by Michael Stueben, and Diane Sandford, reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
"The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics", by Ivars Peterson, reviewed by Charles Ashbacher

Alphametics and Solutions to Alphametics, edited by Steven Kahan

Problems and Conjectures, edited by Joseph S. Madachy

Solutions to Problems and Conjectures, edited by Joseph S. Madachy

Solvers list, edited by Joseph S. Madachy

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This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to "undesirable" applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion of solutions to the Year 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad, with emphasis on the comparison of the olympiad problems to those given at the Moscow University entrance examinations. The second part of the book provides a historical background of a unique phenomenon in mathematics, which flourished in the 1970s-80s in the USSR. Specially designed math problems were used not to test students' ingenuity and creativity but, rather, as "killer problems," to deny access to higher education to "undesirable" applicants. The focus of this part is the 1980 essay, "Intellectual Genocide", written by B Kanevsky and V Senderov. It is being published for the first time. Also featured is a little-known page of the Soviet history, a rare example of the oppressed organizing to defend their dignity.This is the story of the so-called Jewish People's University, the inception of which is associated with Kanevsky, Senderov and Bella Subbotovskaya. ... Read more

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Great Russian math entrance exam questions
Interesting and tough problems from Moscow State University, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, and Moscow Institute for Engineering and Physics.

Includes articles on the history of using tougher questions to refuse admission of Jewish students - a form of state-sanctioned discrimination, before the era of perestroika. There is also material covering the alleged KGB assassination of Bella Abramovna - a dedicated math teacher who organized an informal underground university for educating Jewish math students in the Soviet Union. A fascinating read. ... Read more

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High-school students discover that a virtual-reality game can have real life consequences.Written in one month as part of NaNoWriMo 2006 (www.nanowrimo.org). ... Read more