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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (Academic Press, 1982) by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy is a compendium of information on mathematical games. It was first published in 1982 in two volumes. The first volume introduces combinatorial game theory and its foundation in the surreal numbers; partizan and impartial games; Sprague–Grundy theory and misère games. The second volume applies the theorems of the first volume to many games, including nim, sprouts, dots and boxes, Sylver coinage, philosopher's phutball, fox and geese. A final section on puzzles analyzes the Soma cube, Rubik's Cube, peg solitaire, and Conway's Game of Life. A republication of the work by A K Peters split the content into four volumes. (Wikipedia).

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First Lesson Playing with math cards: Mathematical Play

Just starting to use these cards and the possibilities are exciting.

From playlist Mathematical Play

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First lesson with mathematical play - Cards

These cards can be used to teach co-ordinates, and parabola shape. They could also be used to teach the equation of a parabola through peer based learning.

From playlist Mathematical Play

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My Powtoons Just Because I wanted to PLAY.

Quick and easy - you could get good at this quite quickly. There is very little for free though.

From playlist Mathematical Play

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Games with a predefined winner - cool examples .

There are some wonderful mathematical principles behind winning strategies in some games. I discuss 3 such games: 2 players take away stones, putting knights on a chessboard and splitting a chocolate plate ! Who wins with the right strategy ? These problems are known as First-player and s

From playlist Interesting math problems

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How to win at poker

A mathematical poker trick, to make you pick the losing hand. My shuffle to put the queen on top of the deck was quite unsubtle. The queen was on the bottom, I moved the cards about and then put the queen on top. How to force the queen: Put two cards down, one of which is the queen,

From playlist My Maths Videos

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Square Root of 2

In this video, I have fun composing the digits of the square root of 2 into a song

From playlist Math Play

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Content Driven Mathematical Play

https://sites.google.com/view/2019math/home The big idea is to introduce PLAY based learning into the secondary school mathematics classroom.

From playlist Mathematical Play

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15 May 2019 Mathematical Play - Co-ordinates and Parabola - Math Card Games

These cards can be used in a flexible way building up skills and understanding. The playfulness allows student to enjoy mathematics is a totally new way.

From playlist Mathematical Play

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Making sense of dividing Rational Expressions

I make short, to-the-point online math tutorials. I struggled with math growing up and have been able to use those experiences to help students improve in math through practical applications and tips. If I helped you in this video, I would love to have you subscribe. My subscribers are my

From playlist Learn Multiplying/Dividing Rational Expressions #Rational

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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking - with Jordan Ellenberg

The maths we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. Jordan Ellenberg shows how wrong this view is through stories that show the power of mathematical thinking. Buy Jordan's book "How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Ever

From playlist Mathematics

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How to Use Math to Get Rich in the Lottery* - Jordan Ellenberg (Wisconsin–Madison)

For seven years, a group of students from MIT exploited a loophole in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s Cash WinFall game to win drawing after drawing, eventually pocketing more that $3 million. How did they do it? How did they get away with it? And what does this all have to do with mathe

From playlist Mathematics Research Center

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Win a SMALL fortune with counting cards-the math of blackjack & Co.

NEW (Christmas 2019). Two ways to support Mathologer Mathologer Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mathologer Mathologer PayPal: paypal.me/mathologer (see the Patreon page for details) Curious about how it is possible to make money in a casino, for example, by counting cards in Blackjack?

From playlist Recent videos

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Math Mornings on Sunday - Nathan Kaplan: Points, Lines & Puzzles

Professor Nathan Kaplan gives a talk about Points, Lines & Puzzles at Yale Math Mornings on Sunday.

From playlist Math Mornings at Yale

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What Happens When Maths Goes Wrong? - with Matt Parker

Most of the time, the maths in our everyday lives works quietly behind the scenes, until someone forgets to carry a '1' and a bridge collapses or a plane drops out of the sky. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Matt's book "Humble Pi" available now: https://ge

From playlist Mathematics

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Ezra (Bud) Brown - Puzzles & Wonders from Elwyn, Richard, John, Ron, and Martin - CoM Oct 2020

This talk will be about some or all of these: Tic Tac Toe, Hat Puzzles, Blocks on a rug, Sequences, Dots and Boxes, Counting on your Fingers, How 16 times 16 equals 24, some evidence that there aren’t nearly enough Small Numbers, and a new kind of cipher that gave jobs to millions of worth

From playlist Celebration of Mind

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How Science is Taking the Luck out of Gambling - with Adam Kucharski

From the statisticians forecasting sports scores to the intelligent bots beating human poker players, Adam Kucharski traces the scientific origins of the world's best gambling strategies. Watch the Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0XxbHnf5ro Subscribe for regular science videos:

From playlist Prob and Stats

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Matt Baker - Mathemagical Themas - CoM Oct 2021

I will perform — and explain! — some magic tricks based on interesting mathematical principles. Matt Baker is an internationally renowned Georgia Tech mathematics professor by day and an accomplished magician by night. Matt received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1999 and wa

From playlist Celebration of Mind 2021

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You Need A Smart Strategy To Solve This Math Olympiad Game

Thanks to James M. for this suggestion! You roll a dice up to 3 times, stopping after any roll you wish. You get paid the value of the roll you stop. If you play optimally, what is your expected payout? (more precise wording in video) My blog post for this video: https://wp.me/p6aMk-5qO

From playlist Statistics And Probability

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HACKENBUSH: a window to a new world of math

A playful venture into the vast and mysterious forests of combinatorial game theory. This one simple game will change the way you look at numbers forever! Hackenbush is easy to pick up, but exploring its strategy leads us down a fantastical mathematical rabbit hole, through which can be f

From playlist Summer of Math Exposition Youtube Videos

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Richard K. Guy | Snakes and ladders | Nim | Misère | Phutball | Grundy's game | Soma cube | Kayles | Conway's Game of Life | Domineering | Combinatorial game theory | Rubik's Cube | Peg solitaire | Sylver coinage | L game | Col (game) | Hackenbush | On Numbers and Games | Impartial game | Sprouts (game)