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"Math Games (and why they matter), with Ben Orlin": University of Michigan Department of Mathematics, and the National Science Foundation
About the talk: In 2013, at a picnic, I stumbled across a strange variation of tic-tac-toe. Ever since then, I've been collecting mathematical games. We'll explore a few examples from my book Math Games with Bad Drawings, from a press-your-luck dice game to a numerical trivia game -- and we'll see what each game reveals about the interwoven powers of reason and imagination.
About the speaker: Ben Orlin is a math teacher, an author, and an inept cartoonist. His books include Math with Bad Drawings (which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide), Change Is the Only Constant, and Math Games with Bad Drawings. He has taught math to every age from middle schoolers to undergraduates, and his writing about math and education has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, Vox, and Popular Science. He lives in Saint Paul, MN with his wife and their daughters.
Weiser Hall Room 296, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042 ,Ann Arbor. Free. jchw@umich.edu.Add this event to your calendar: Google Calendar | iCal
