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RIVER CROSSING: Missionaries and Cannibals, Polya

Posted by Rodi Steinig

· Monday, September 14th, 2015

(May 19, 2015) Only R and J were there; the rest of the kids were out sick. We didn’t want to continue with the Dark Bridge/Unicorn problem without the others, so we tackled the famed river crossing problem Missionaries and Cannibals: In the missionaries and cannibals problem, three missionaries and three cannibals must cross a river using a boat which…

Folklore – River Crossing – Collatz – the Elephant – Siri – Cannibals

Posted by Rodi Steinig

· Friday, May 22nd, 2015

(April 28, May 5, and May 12, 2015) We’ve had 3 sessions so far, and I see 3 big themes developing in this 5-session course for 9-11 year olds: Everyone thinks that “Everyone Else in the Room is Better at Math than Me.” Not everyone realizes what math is really about. There’s culture/folklore in mathematics that the kids are starting…

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RIVER CROSSING: Missionaries and Cannibals, Polya

Folklore – River Crossing – Collatz – the Elephant – Siri – Cannibals

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