emergent math

Lessons, Commentary, Coaching, and all things mathematics.

Month: February 2018

  • Stop Thief!, The Fugitive and introducing equations of circles

    When I was a kid, we had this super high-tech board game called Stop Thief!. The gist was this: someone committed a crime somewhere on the game board, which was rife with jewelry displays, unattended cash registers and safes. Your job as the detective was to identify where the thief was. The location of the thief…