Puzzles & Games

Student Info Form (due Sept 4)
Webwork Link [Webwork Guidelines]
Project Guidelines
Reflection Guidelines

Project Outline (due Sept 26)

Presentation Schedule

Nov 23: Dominic, Victor, Heather-Olivia-Alexandra
(Note: this date may change due to the strike)
Nov 28: Matthew-Muhammad-Jeff-Wamiq, Sierra-Victoria, Gianna-Riley-Mansahib
Nov 30: Julien, Tyler-Hadi, Magali-Nicole, Alex

Class Material

DAY 1: Knights & Knaves [Slides]
DAY 2: Cheryl’s B-day Problem, Game of 21, Tic-tac-toe [Slides]
DAY 3: Mutilated Chessboard, Water & Wine [Slides]
DAY 4: Counting, Hotelling’s Law [Slides]
DAY 5: Problem Solving, Project Ideas [Slides]
DAY 6: Fitch Cheney and Poker [Slides]
DAY 7: Games of Chance and Expected Value [Slides]
DAY 8: Quiz 1, Class Work [Quiz]
DAY 9: HW Session, Mathematical Card Tricks [Tricks]
DAY 10: HW Session, More Magic [Clock Trick] [Matched Speller]
DAY 11: HW 2 Review, Test Prep
DAY 12: Test Prep, Missing Dollar, Monty Hall [Slides]
DAY 13: Test Prep, Penney’s Game [Slides]
DAY 14: (Oct 5) Test 1 [Solutions]
DAY 15: Intro to Modular Arithmetic, The Caesar Cipher [Slides]
DAY 16: More Modular Arithmetic, The Affine Cipher [Slides]
DAY 17: HW Session, Coin Flipping
DAY 18: Cancelled
DAY 19: HW3 Review
DAY 20: One-Time Pad [Slides]
DAY 21: Public Key Cryptography [Slides]

Homework and Review

Homework 1 due Sept 7th (start of class) [Answers]
Homework 2 due Sept 26th (start of class) [Answers]
Review for Test 1 [Answers]
Homework 3 due Oct 24th (start of class) [Answers]
Homework 4 WEBWORK due Nov 13th (before midnight)
Extra Review for Test 2

Simulators

Books

Youtube Channels

Other Online Resources

Cut The Knot: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Card Colm: Colm Mulcahy’s articles on Mathematical Card Magic
Recreational Mathematics Magazine: Free Online Journal
Open Source Vector Playing Cards: Playing Card Images