Wes Carroll Tutoring & Coaching Blog
Podcast – 13: Order of operands
Cindy was asked by her teacher to subtract 3 from a certain number and then divide the result by 9. Instead, she subtracted 9 and ...
Take It Like A Grown-Up
A few years ago, a 35-year-old took the SAT and wrote about the experience. I responded with the essay below, which I think is relevant ...
Podcast – 12: One light switch
For years you were a lonely prisoner here. But earlier today, you were brought to a courtyard to join the others, where you are all ...
Podcast – 11: The loopiest puzzler
I have four lengths of rope. I hold them so that you can see all eight ends, but you can’t tell which end connects to ...
Math Excellence For Girls
From MIT and NBER, this just in: "...almost all girls with the ability to reach high math achievement levels are not doing so." (Here's the ...
Time For More Difficult Problems…
I've been doing a podcast of math problems, and the feedback so far is: give us more difficult problems! You asked, I'll deliver. I hope ...
Podcast – 10: Eight’s too many
In the eight-term sequence "a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h", c represents 5, and the sum of any three consecutive terms is 30 ...
Podcast – 09: Coin flip winner
We’re going to play a simple coin-flip game. We take turns flipping a fair coin. The first one to get “heads” wins. You go first ...
Podcast – 08: Strawberry ice cream
A friend of mine has pictures of his three daughters on his mantle. He took the pictures when each of the girls was a particularly ...
Podcast – 07: Kiana’s twin brothers
Kiana has two older twin brothers. The product of their three ages is 128. What is the sum of their three ages? // Spiciness: * ...
