Dear Math Maggie, I am trying to figure out seating for Thanksgiving dinner this week and I need some help. I have 40 guests coming to dinner and I want them to sit at one long table. Each of the tables I have can sit 3 people on each side and 2 people on each […]

Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly 3 eggs, each person had an egg. How is that possible?

  Arlington National Cemetery is the only cemetery in the United States to hold servicemen and women from every war in  U.S. history. This picture shows just a small picture of the entire cemetery. It displays roughly 0.03% of the people buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Using what you can see in this picture, about […]

Watch the video of Tillman the English Bulldog, the Guinness World Record holder for fastest Dog on a Skateboard. 1. At the conclusion of the video a classmate takes out a calculator and says, “Wow! That was amazing! That means the dog went about 5 meters per second!” Is your classmate correct? How do you […]

In July 2011 my family and I moved to Invercargill, New Zealand. We spent 18 months there and returned to Reno in December 2012. To fly from Reno to Invercargill, it is 7.4 x 10^3 miles. On our way back to Reno we stopped in London, England. To fly from Invercargill to London it is […]