About

This is the official blog of Dr Mike’s Math Games for Kids. I expect the posts will mainly fall into two categories:

  • My thoughts on math education, particularly comments on news articles I happen to see
  • Occasional short math puzzles, that don’t really deserve a whole page of their own on the main site.

Enjoy your visit! And if you haven’t seen the over 70 free math games, puzzles and other resources on the main site, don’t forget to visit there too…

7 thoughts on “About”

  1. Dear Sir,

    I saw your web site it is good. I have been regularly receiving the updates from your site.

    I have my own site dedicated to the magic square puzzles. By God’s grace I was able to discover these puzzles.

    I request you to go to my website and give me your feed back. I value your feed back.

    My web site is http://www.magicsquarepuzzles.com

    Thanks.

    Mahesh

  2. Hey,

    I just got done reading “State Of The Union 2011” and loved it! Would it be okay if I used a portion of the post and cited back? My writing team may be writing an article on a similar topic in the future.

    Thanks!

    Lynda Daviere
    —
    “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” –Edward Everett

  3. Hi
    I’ve been working on your magic square with a 64 grid. (I’m an adult. Which doesn’t mean I should get it, but…)
    When I put it in excel, using 260 as the sum of each row and column, it didn’t work out. I started with rows and columns with single nnumbers missing, then the diagonal. I triple checked my number entry. No dice. Do you have a completed square?

    Adam

  6. Hello, Dr. Mike

    I really appreciate the traffic jam game printable version. I did print it to play with my nephew and I am sure he will love it. But I have a question about your rules for the game: in the grid you make available, there is not an exit square. Accordingly to the quantity of moves in the first configurations you suggest (in: http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/support-files/traffic-jam-puzzle-book.pdf), should I consider like a rule that the exist square changes from game to game being always the one in front of the red car? Also should I consider like a rule the car can’t get off the parking lot driving backwards?
    These assumed rules make sense accordingly to the first proposed game configurations in your Puzzle Book. But I would like to be sure it would work for all the puzzles.
    Thanks you!

  7. Yes, you’re right. The exit square is always the one in front to the red car, and the car can’t escape off the grid backwards. Thanks for commenting!

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