Enlarge / Quantum Go Fish is just one of the many math-y games in Ben Orlin’s latest book, Math Games with Bad Drawings . (credit: Ben Orlin) Adapted from Math Games with Bad Drawings (2022) by Ben Orlin. You can read our latest interview with Orlin here . Of the thousand games I encountered in […]
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Hate math? You’ll still love this cornucopia of simple-yet-seductive math games
Enlarge / Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe is at heart a game of fractal structure, per math teacher Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings . Players must balance two levels, an element that requires them to “Think globally, act locally. ” (credit: Ben Orlin) In 1974, a geneticist named Marsha Jean Falco devised an ingenious […]