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Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 5 Feb 25

I messed up with the dosa consistency by adding more black gram dal by mistake. They turned out dry and I had to dunk them in tea in order to moisturize them. Cooking is all about mathematics. You have to count everything -...

cooking

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Mr Swoopsalot picks on bald men the most

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Jan 24

I read an interesting article online about a year 3 student (so aged between 8 and 9) who conducted a survey about a magpie near her school in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The magpie, Mr Swoopsalot, has been terrorising...

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Zen Story: The mathematics-loving Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23735) • Australia 23 May 23

The Zen master, Bunlo Kerlask, used to dabble in mathematics too. He would say that every person has a particular number that resonates with their personality type, and it is important that we balance ourself to...

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Short story: The religiously minded maths teacher

emptychair @innertalks (23735) • Australia 28 Aug 22

The maths teacher, Fregrich Doplosku, was a good maths teacher. Along with his maths lessons, he used to give his students a life lesson too. One day, he was giving a maths lecture on vulgar fractions. Vulgar fractions...

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Zen short story: God and probability

emptychair @innertalks (23735) • Australia 11 Apr 22

The Zen master, Frilock Riscposhke, was also a master mathematician. He liked to use his Zen, and his mathematical skills, in unison, to come up with some answers for him about God. Now, all games of chance, have a...

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Welcome and Stick Problems

Yanlhy Garcia @Chiri2005 (3) 11 Mar 22

Good morning to all those beautiful people reading this post. I am new in MyLot and I started to think about what I could publish, unfortunately I have no ideas, so I decided to start publishing math problems that I will solve...

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Zeno's paradox and toilet paper.

The Horse @TheHorse (238279) • Walnut Creek, California 16 Apr 21

I am almost out of toilet paper. Happily, I remember Zeno's paradox (the story of the hare--Achilles, actually-- and the tortoise) and know that I don't ever have to completely run out of toilet paper. Each time I engage in my...

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The Geniuses in Hidden Figures.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 4 Feb 21

By the characters alone, a trio of colored women working at the NASA in 1961, the movie entitled Hidden Figures, based on true-to-life stories of pioneering black women in America's space station, did capture my interest as I...

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A query for the mathematically minded

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Nov 20

So are you good at math/s? (Mostly we say 'maths' in Australia) I’m a bit flummoxed at the moment. Vince bought a pack of two toothbrushes today. You can see the back of the pack in the photo. It says it reduces 151% more...

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Pythagoras' theorem

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jul 20

The photo has little to do with the post but ties in a little with the joke at the end. I recently commented on a post by Raj (@Butterfingers) who was asking members if they had enjoyed maths at school. You can catch up here:...

mathematics

geometry

pythagoras theorem

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About new discussions

Sunil Kumar @vsunil7862462 (11) • Hisar, India 16 Nov 19

Hey mylot users what you think about if we discuss about all problems about education like which one we can't solve so we can discuss this problem here so everyone will participate in this (students) And we can solve problems of...

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Favorite Subject.....

Aanshi Raghava @Aansh13 (11433) • New Delhi, India 6 Sep 19

There are number of subjects we read across our life time, some in school, some in graduation, may be in post graduation...... All through my life I have been fascinated by numbers, so I have loved mathematics as a whole.... What...

favorite subject

mathematics

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Your mathematics experience in high school

enyi ada @Berrygal (5834) 5 Apr 18

I just remember my days with algebra, logarithm,Pythagoras theorems. He he he.Never get to understand those and I'm wondering those that enjoy mathematics, how they do it. Did you like mathematical in high school?

mathematics

highschool

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MY BEST TEACHER

Beautybrandie @BeautyBrandie (41) • Nigeria 22 Mar 18

Mr Adam is my best teacher,too discipline but friendly.Mr Adam is a mathematics teacher,the only subject i hate most.Mr Adam has contributed immensely to my ability to tackle any problem in mathematics.My mathematics teacher...

mr adam

mathematics

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I missed Pi Day!

Kelli M @spiderdust (14756) • San Jose, California 15 Mar 18

Yesterday was March 14th, or 3/14 (according to the US format of writing dates), which is popularly called "Pi Day" after the famous number that begins as 3.14. In the past I've either made or purchased a pie, and a lot of places...

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Calculations with calculator ?

Icydoll @Icydoll (36713) • India 9 Feb 18

We do calculations in our daily life . We use calculator oftenly to calculate whatever we purchase. Due to increase of Smartphones and all other gadgets we mostly don't let our brain to calculate things.this results in decrease of...

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Is Learning Math Having An Autism?

MojoFan @gibocam (343) • United States 22 Nov 17

I love mathematics and situations that requires problem solving and analyzing skills. Sometimes I wonder why other people do hate them? Is it because they don't know about it? Or do I have this autistic view having a world of my...

autism

mathematics

skills

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Why is Mathematics hated by so many people?

The Invisible Man @TheInvisibleMan (17594) 9 Oct 17

Mathematics is one of the subjects that easily enters the list of most hated subjects of any student during the school time. Do you also see (or have seen ) math in this way? What would be your explanation for...

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i met a spider

Elizabeth @Poppylicious (11134) • United Kingdom 30 May 17

Husband is not as good at Maths as he likes to think he is. I know this because we had some topsoil delivered this morning, three bags of the stuff, which was equal to two tonnes. You would think that that would be enough to...

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who hates mathematics like me?

kwenge @kwenge (2487) • Kenya 5 Feb 17

In school my favorite subject was science. I used to perform very well in mathematics but some group of girls who I called my friends told me that is a subject for boys. I dropped it like it was hot and life was easy. What subject...

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