Volume 6, Number 5

29 January 2001 Vol. 6, No. 5 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS Pentomino - T.I.D. Ronse School | The Mathman - Don Cohen Mathematics Problems and Warm-ups - Lori Thomson PENTOMINO - T.I.D.Ronse School http://home.planetinternet.be/~odettedm/ Students at the T.I.D Ronse School in Ronse, Belgium have made a Web page featuring pentominoes. The pages can be viewed in Dutch, English or French. The introduction page has general information and interactive links to: - monomino http://home.planetinternet.be/~odettedm/monominoe.html - domino http://home.planetinternet.be/~odettedm/dominoe.html - triomino http://home.planetinternet.be/~odettedm/trominoe.html - tetromino http://home.planetinternet.be/~odettedm/tetrominoe.html - pentomino http://home.planetinternet.be/~odettedm/pentominoe.html Visitors to the site are invited to enter a competition that involves using the 12 unique pentominoes to tile a 10 x 10 x 10 cube. An example is shown here: http://home.planetinternet.be/~odettedm/wedstrijde.html -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- THE MATHMAN - Don Cohen http://www.shout.net/~mathman/ Materials for sale to K-12 students, teachers and parents, including "Get Ready for Calculus" and "Changing Shapes with Matrices." Sample problems and answers from Don's worksheet book are organized by chapters here: http://www.shout.net/~mathman/html/chapters.html "Patterns in Mathematics" is a book in the planning stages with pages on the Web site: http://www.shout.net/~mathman/html/patterns.html The Mathman posts the mathematical thoughts of his students, as reflected on the page "New Discoveries, New Student Works:" http://www.shout.net/~mathman/html/discover.html -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- MATHEMATICS PROBLEMS AND WARM-UPS - Lori Thomson http://www.geom.umn.edu/~lori/mathed/problems/ This web-base of 101 short, interesting mathematics problems is searchable by keyword or by categories such as areas of mathematics and types of thinking. The site provides a bibliography of sources, and an explanation of the categories listed on the search page. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/pow/ Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/discussions/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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