Maria Miller at her Homeschool Math Blog site is hosting a blog contest with PoW memberships as prizes! The winners will be randomly drawn from all entries and the prizes include:

• one Individual Membership to the Problems of the Week
• one Class Membership to the Problems of the Week
• your choice of one of Maria's ebooks:
        Place Value 1
        Multiplication 1
        Geometry

View details for participation on Maria's blog. Also read her write-up, Challenging problems in math education and "Problems of the Week," on her Homeschool Math site:

http://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/challenging-problems.php

The Blog Contest starts today, Friday, August 11, and will last two weeks. Maria tailors her information to a homeschooling audience but participation is open to anyone in the mathematics community.

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