Introductions

My family talks about math - a lot.  My wife, the math phD and school teacher, and me, the engineer, love sharing our passion for math with our four kids - 14, 12, 11, and 3.  We have fun solving everything from brain teasers to home work problems to poking fun at "bad math" used in the news.  I'm hoping to capture some of that passion here in this blog

Our first born, J, likes to be the first to answer any problem, and will often blurt out an answer just to be first, even if his answer doesn't make sense.   With enough prodding and coaxing, he generally finds his way to right answer.

Number two, B, is just as competitive, but she is also fiercely prideful, adamantly refusing any help or hints.   She may not get to the answer as quickly as she would like, but you can count on her being right.

And then there's M.   He's our little math prodigy.   Often he can intuitively jump to the answer, and give a very reasonable informal "proof" of why he's right, much to the chagrin of his siblings.  Still, his overconfidence tends to be his undoing as he rarely takes the time to double check his work.

Our youngest, G, in typical 3 year old fashion, thinks she's the center of the universe.   Sometimes she gets frustrated at all the talk about numbers because, as she puts it, she "doesn't get a chance to talk".  I think she enjoys it as much as the rest of us though.   She was practicing counting to 100 the other day, and would stop and giggle when ever she got to a double number like 44 or 77 claiming they were funny.

Anyway, that's us.  Hopefully you can share in some of our fun.