We need more math where people can find it, play with it, and enjoy it. Therefore, are excited to introduce our newest project: MathHappens in the Newspaper. Elizabeth Wrightsman is heading this project and the rest of the team is contributing ideas, submissions, and landing pages for each week.
Below you’ll find an up to date display of all our submissions to The Austin Chronicle. You can also locate them from The Chronicle‘s archives at the following links (2020 issues, 2021 issues).
All additional links from the QR codes can be accessed here.
We’d also love to receive any feedback you have on our past submissions via this form.
Weekly Submissions
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- Tangram Puzzle by Josephine Sheng. August 28, 2020
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- Heart from a circle and square by Viyang Shah. September 4, 2020
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- Shapes Sudoku by Anh Nguyen. September 11, 2020
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- 64 = 65 Puzzle by Michelle Tat. September 18, 2020
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- Path Puzzle by Elizabeth Wrightsman. September 25, 2020
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- Land Grab by Josephine Sheng. October 2, 2020
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- Napier’s Bones by Lauren Siegel and Anh Nguyen. October 9, 2020.
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- Which One Doesn’t Belong by Mark Kaercher. October 16, 2020
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- Moscow Puzzle by Lauren Siegel. October 23, 2020.
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- Finding Area by Michelle Tat. October 30, 2020.
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- Multiplication with Lines by Anh Nguyen. November 6, 2020.
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- Latin American Geometric Art by Lauren Siegel. November 13, 2020.
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- Magic Triangles by Elizabeth Wrightsman. November 20, 2020.
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- Tessellating Pentagons by Michelle Tat. November 27, 2020.
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- Bipartite Graphs by Anh Nguyen. December 4, 2020.
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- Liars and Truth Tellers by Lauren Siegel. December 11, 2020.
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- Fold & Cut by Lauren Siegel. December 18, 2020.
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- Fibonacci Stones by Michelle Tat. December 25, 2020
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- Shepard’s Parallelograms by Lauren Siegel. January 1, 2021
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- Make Pascal’s Triangle by Viyang Shah. January 8, 2021.
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- Cake Cutting by Lauren Siegel. January 22, 2021
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- Counting in Binary by Anh Nguyen. January 29, 2021
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- The Egg! by Lauren Siegel. February 5, 2021
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- Classic Snowflake by Lauren Siegel. February 12, 2021.
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- Spiral of Theodorus by Lauren Siegel. February 19, 2021.
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- Fun with Multiplication Tables by Iva Sallay and Lauren Siegel. February 26, 2021.
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- Area of a Dodecagon by Quan Q. Nguyen. March 5, 2021.
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- Hollow Squares Transformation by Quan Q. Nguyen. March 12, 2021.
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- Find the Factor Pairs that Make Sum-Differences by Iva Sallay. March 19, 2021
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- Catenary Curves By Naila Hajiyeva. March 26, 2021
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- Almost Like Looking in a Mirror by Iva Sallay. April 2, 2021.
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- The Mayan Number System! by Quan Nguyen. April 9, 2021
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- Powers of 3 by Viyang Shah. April 16, 2021
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- Monty Hall Problem by Josephine Sheng. April 23, 2021
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- Area of a Circle by Quan Nguyen. Apri 30, 2021.
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- Viviani’s Theorem by Quan Nguyen. May 7, 2021.
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- True Theorems Challenge by Naila Hajiyeva. May 14, 2021
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- Euclidean Polygons by Paola Garcia. May 21, 2021
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- Four Color Theorem! by Paola Garcia. May 28, 2021
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- Cross the Bridge! by Quan Nguyen. June 4, 2021
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- Star Battle! by Quan Nguyen. June 11, 2021
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- Finding Right Angles! by Viyang Shah. June 18, 2021
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- Look Into My Eyes! by Anh Nguyen and Paola Garcia. June 25, 2021
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- Finding the Cubes! by Josephine Sheng. July 2, 2021
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- Pi to Square! by Paola Garcia. July 9, 2021
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- N-bonacci Sequence by Naila Hajiyeva. July 16, 2021
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- Star Angles! by Andrea Prado. July 23, 2021.
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- Four 4’s Challenge! by Paola Garcia. July 30, 2021
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- Transformers: Square to Triangle by Josephine Sheng and Paola Garcia. August 6, 2021
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- Lott’s Stone Puzzle by Paola Garcia. August 13, 2021
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- PENTOMINOES BY JOSEPHINE SHENG. AUGUST 20, 2021
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- Optical Illusions by Lauren Siegel AUGUST 27, 2021
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- Transformers: Square to Hexagon by Paola Garcia September 3, 2021
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- Nansuke Puzzle by Naila Hajiyeva. September 24, 2021
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- Magician’s Assistant by Lauren Siegel, October 1,2021
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- Hexaflexagon by Quan Nguyen. October 8, 2021
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- The Collatz Conjecture by Anh Nguyen. October 15, 2021.
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- Hiker’s Shortest Path by Quan Nguyen. October 22, 2021
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- Trick or Treat by Naila Hajiyeva. October 29th, 2021
5 Comments on “MathHappens in the Newspaper: The Austin Chronicle”
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Hi folks. I’m an Austin Chronicle reader (from Issue #1), and I must say your weekly challenge has become part of why I love the Chronicle. I look forward to each new challenge.
But, here’s a small complaint. I don’t have a smart phone, and I don’t have a camera on my computer. So your QR code is useless for me. I’m used to this, since everyone now seems to assume everyone has the ability to scan a smart code. But I thought y’all might do better. I searched your entire website for a problem (“A Hole New Board”) that appeared in the Dec. 10, 2021 issue of the Chronicle, but failed to find it.
Can you PLEASE add a page where each problem and its solution can be found? And also add that link to your print copy?
Thanks…a dedicated reader & math addict. (humbug@texobie.me)
BTW…I solved the problem. But I want to forward it to another math junkie. Must I really scan the Chronicle to do this?!
Thank you for your comment. We love the Chronicle too and are very happy to be a small part. We do have a link from this blog entry to the landing page, but we can make it more visible. We don’t have the problems on there, just solutions, but this is a change we should consider for 2022. Best, MH
Regarding your challenge in the April 22, 2022 edition of the Austin Chronicle called Playing with Areas of Circles…I decided to give it a try. In consulting your provided solution It appears you used the diameter of the circles as opposed to the radius of the circles in your calculations. Yes?
Thanks for the interesting challenge. Enjoyed putting my mind to work.
Stan
Thank you Stan! You are right. We used diameter in our equations where we should have used the radius. We have fixed the solution page. Keep on calculating! We appreciate you. –Lauren at MathHappens