Category Archives: Sleepless Mathematics

While laying in bed the other night I came up with two interesting math questions. 1) Choose integers at random.  Multiply them all together.  What is the probability that the product of all the integers you chose is odd? 2) … Continue reading →

When I was an undergraduate studying mathematics and I had a particularly taxing problem set to do, I would sometimes fantasize about finding a mathematical contradiction.  If I could only prove that then I could march to my professor and tell him … Continue reading →

Sometimes I inadvertently come up with a math problem and can’t seem fall asleep until I solve it.  So it happened last night. It started with my unit on limits.  I plan on giving the students a math problem in which they … Continue reading →

You know those nights where you lay in bed for hours and just can’t fall asleep?  When you watch the clock tick your precious moments of sleep away and know you’re already going to be a zombie the next day … Continue reading →