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Math Fair Grade Level: Secondary

Sword of Knowledge

The Dragon of Ignorance has three heads and three tails. You can slay it with the Sword of Knowledge, by chopping off all its heads…

Sticky Tabs

To create the five Platonic solids, you can cut paper and then fold it. One of the best ways to do this is to cut…

Stair Climber

The LCD numbers on a stair climber or alarm clock or microwave are made up of straight sections arranged either horizontally and/or vertically. That is,…

Snow Day Phone Chain

On Thursday January 20th the Pocono Mountain region experienced the first big snow storm of the new millennium. Many schools closed because of the slippery…

Snake in a Box

Equipment: Pieces numbered 1 through 25 and a 5×5 board. Number of Players: 2 (a cobra player, and a snake charmer) Time: 10 minutes How…

Siege Geometry

A siege is a blockade of a town, city or fortress to try to make it surrender. One of the greatest practitioners of the siege…

Rocket-Propelled Coyote

Coyotes demarcate their territory by peeing on bushes, rocks, shrubs, cacti, trees, and anything else that is lying around. It is tiring, never-ending work. That…

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…

Ring of Threes

Write 1’s and 2’s in the circles so that no three consecutive numbers sum to a multiple of three. Extensions: There are four solutions to…

Quinton the Quick Quilter

The Queen was upset. During her gold-hilted sword practice she had missed the target and ended up impaling her favourite quilt to the wall. Although…