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		<title>All-digits Arithmetic: Analysis Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2019 22:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mathematics is not about absolute, formulaic, only-one-way methods. It is about exploration. We often forget to emphasize the creativity flowing through math, the skills of reading and understanding a question before setting out to solve it, and the continuous wondering and wandering involved as we solve it. We talk about these essential steps, but rarely [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All-digits Arithmetic: Analysis Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a long post. Take your time exploring it. Last post we walked through a scheme to solve a math challenge posed by Dennis Coble, a fellow tweeter and friend of mine. This challenge, which I dubbed All-digits Arithmetic, follows. Here’s 1 that might interest you. Numbers 1-9 all used: 3 digit number, plus [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All-digits Arithmetic: Analysis Part 1</title>
		<link>https://shawnurban.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/all-digits-arithmetic-analysis-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2019 01:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I reposted a challenge proposed by Dennis Coble. In this post, I begin analyzing it. The two posts start the same to catch people up. Grab a pencil, eraser and paper, because it&#8217;s about to get mathematical. Back in June 2011, friend and fellow tweeter, Dennis Coble, tweeted a math challenge [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All-digits Arithmetic: Renewing the Challenge</title>
		<link>https://shawnurban.wordpress.com/2019/08/23/all-digits-arithmetic-reposted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2019 01:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in June 2011, friend and fellow tweeter, Dennis Coble, tweeted a math challenge to me. I posted this challenge, which I called All-digits Arithmetic, on my blog. The challenge was so popular, three years later, I created a math lab of the same name based on it. And over the years several teachers and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2019 04:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is reblogged from my writing blog, Stefras&#8217; Bridge. Stefras&#8217; Bridge Story and poem appreciation or comprehension is a favourite topic of mine. I am a writer after all. But many people dislike analyzing the stories they read. And story appreciation ignores a whole section of story comprehension that I feel is very fun [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Math Challenge: Can You Draw This?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 05:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[picture perfect patch © 2011 randomtruth &#124; more info (via: FlickrStorm) &#160; Please, do not visit her post just yet Fawn Nguyen wrote a post on Friday that caught my attention. She divided her math class into pairs, making one person in each pair a Describer and the other person a Drawer. She then gave [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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