Ever lose track of how much flour, sugar, milk, eggs, soap, razors, spices, motor oil, filters, nails, screws, glue, paper, staples, etc… you have on hand? Ever shop based on hunger, rather than diciplined restocking? Ever want to have an inventory of groceries at your house, so you don’t have to run to the store [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Math’
Home School Software: Inventory Tracking
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Life, Perspective, Projects, Software, tagged Home School, Home School Software, Household Inventory, Inventory, Math, Organization on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A big measuring tape and a right triangle
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Projects, Technique, tagged Equation, Kids, Math, Outdoors, Pythagorean Theorm on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a good picture of Eli (with Ezra and Anna in the background) holding a 300′ measuring tape. We needed to make a right angle, so I explained to them that a triangle with the sides 3, 4, 5 will be a 100% right triangle. So we measured 15′, 20′, and 25′ around three stakes, [...]
Interesting Numeric Pattern
Posted in Interesting, reSearch, tagged Math, Numbers, Patterns on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
>>> for i in range(1,31): … print(‘ ‘ + ’1′*30) … print(‘x ‘ + ’1′*i) … print(‘= ‘ + str(int(’1′*30) * int(’1′*i))) … print() … 111111111111111111111111111111 x 1 = 111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111 x 11 = 1222222222222222222222222222221 111111111111111111111111111111 x 111 = 12333333333333333333333333333321 111111111111111111111111111111 x 1111 = 123444444444444444444444444444321 111111111111111111111111111111 x 11111 = 1234555555555555555555555555554321 111111111111111111111111111111 x 111111 = 12345666666666666666666666666654321 [...]
