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Math Fair Category: Patterns

Nano Hopscotch

In 1985 Nanotechnology guru, Richard Smalley, discovered the smallest soccer ball. It was made of 60 carbon atoms as shown on the right. On October…

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…

Mini Sudoku

The newest puzzle craze, Sudoku, requires you to add numbers to a grid so that every row and every column and every 3×3 bold square…

Minaret With a View

Minarets in the utopian downtown of New Istanbul will be so beautiful that it will be the law that from every minaret, every other minaret…

Maria’s Mixed-up Pasta

Once upon a time there was an Italian village whose only attraction was Maria the Magnificent. She was not called magnificent because she looked magnificently…

Lights On!

There are seven lights in a circle. They are all turned off and the problem is to turn them on. Each light has a switch.…

Karate Bricks

A fake karate brick looks like a regular brick, but when it is hit with a karate chop, it disintegrates. Sometimes people use these fake…

Jumping Chips

The three red chips need to exchange positions with the yellow chips. The yellow chips can only move right.The red chips can only move left.A…