Wes Carroll Tutoring & Coaching Blog

My friend and colleague Jai Flicker just posted this lovely essay on the time he knew just what to say to a student to make ...

A faulty car odometer proceeds from digit 3 to digit 5, always skipping the digit 4, regardless of position. For example, after traveling one mile ...

How many three-digit numbers satisfy the property that the middle digit is the average of the first and the last digits? // Spiciness: ** out ...

A game is played with tokens according to the following rule. In each round, the player with the most tokens gives one token to each ...

Brenda and Sally run in opposite directions on a circular track, starting at diametrically opposite points. They first meet after Brenda has run 100 meters ...

My perpetually tricky friend told me that while she was walking through town she saw four particularly vibrant houses. There was an auburn one, a ...

A friend of mine told me that she can walk a mile south, a mile east, a mile north and end up back home. I ...

Working alone, I put two coats of paint on a wall, one before lunch and one after. Yesterday, I began at the usual time. Two ...

Earlier this week I was rob...er...exploring tombs and I accidently triggered a trap that locked me in a room. With me are a pair of ...

I can't make this stuff up: three days after I reposted my 2012 essay in response to an article by a grown-up taking the SAT, ...