Ivars Peterson's MathTrek

Answers to The Math Game

1. A

2. A

3. B

4. B

5. A

6. B

7. B

8. C

9. D

10. C

Round 2

1. negative

2. positive

3. positive

Round 3

"ZERO TIMES ANYTHING IS ZERO."

Comments are welcome. Please send messages to Ivars Peterson at ip@sciserv.org.

Ivars Peterson is the mathematics/computer writer and online editor at Science News (http://www.sciencenews.org). He is the author of The Mathematical Tourist, Islands of Truth, Newton's Clock, Fatal Defect, and The Jungles of Randomness. He also writes for the children's magazine Muse (http://www.musemag.com) and is working on a book about math and art.

NOW AVAILABLE: Math Trek: Adventures in the MathZone by Ivars Peterson and Nancy Henderson. For children ages 10 and up. New York: Wiley, 1999. ISBN 0-471-31570-2. $12.95 USA (paper).