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Math Fair Category: Measurements

Robot Utopia

Human cities, especially newer ones are usually organized with orthogonal (right-angled) streets and avenues. Here is an example from Gaza: Robot cities are similar to…

Quilt Mending

The Queen has left Quinton with a palace full of quilts she damaged during sword practice. In each case what is the fewest number of…

Modular Houses

A future development includes the creation of large housing complexes based on two inter-connecting modular units with the same side length: In cold climates, energy…

Injection Molding

Injection molding is a technique for making a huge range of plastic objects like toothbrushes, fly swatters, and food containers. Molten hot plastic is injected…

House of Gloom

In the valley in the heart of the dark wood lives a gloomy elf. His doorless home is painted totally black so dark that no…

Flexi Fish

Imagine that all living things are made up of joints and bones .   For example, here are two flexi-fish swimming happily along: You can…

Die Hard

In the movie Die Hard, 4L of water must be weighed, and if incorrect, the fountain from which the water is drawn will explode, killing…