The website www.setgame.com offers a free daily game of SET here:
http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_frame.htm
SET is a great categorizing game in which you try to find sets of three whose characteristics are either identical or entirely different.
Four free SET puzzles are published daily by the New York Times, as well:
Through Math for America, I am part of an on-going collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here:
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/test-yourself-math-oct-3-2011/
This question is based on Facebook’s claim that they have 800 million users, and asks “What percentage of the world’s population uses Facebook every day?”
Here’s a fun use for a dodecahedron: folding it up to make a yearly calendar!
https://texample.net/tikz/examples/foldable-dodecahedron-with-calendar/
Just download the PDF, print, cut, fold, and glue! Access to a large-scale plotter might be nice, as the 8.5 x 11 version folds into something that’s pretty small.
It’s too bad there aren’t eight days in a week, otherwise we could put the octahedron to use, too!
NPR ran an interesting article about how much it costs to make a hit pop song.
Using a Rhianna song as an example, this article breaks down the approximate costs for songwriters, producers, engineering, and marketing.
Before reading the article, take a guess as to how much of the money spent on making a “hit” song goes to creative artists: you’ll almost certainly be surprised.
