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Play Your Way to a Better Attitude toward Math

Writing for the Guardian's monthly activities magazine, Do Something, Alex Bellos encourages readers to play around with a few of his favorite mathematical ideas.

"Broadly speaking, maths is the search for patterns and the solving of puzzles through deductive thought," Bellos writes. "It is and has always been a playful discipline, accessible to all."

He then briefly describes harmonographs, Benford's law, and a pair of coin puzzles.

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Start Date: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2014