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Puzzle Time: The Struggling Classroom — A stick-figure based cartoon where a teacher is standing in front of a class room board, where the following information is laid out: M -> 85%, P -> 75%, G -> 80%, and B -> 70%. Besides these scores is the big letter “F”. In front of the board are three students who seem depressed. The little girl in the centre seems to be crying.

Puzzle Time: The Struggling Classroom

A simple probability-based challenge!

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A pie-chart titled “Things I learned in organic chemistry”, showing the following four legends: Blue: “Interesting compounds”, black: “The secrets of the universe”, green: “powerful reactions”, and pink: “How to draw hexgons”. The pie chart ironically contains only pink hinting that the author only learned how to draw hexagons from organic chemistry.

My Journey From Hating To Loving Chemistry

I never understood why chemical reactions occur — until now!

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The sixth grade math puzzle — First example: Number at the top: 5, number at the left: 3, number at the right: 2, number at the bottom: 4, number at the center: 19. Second example: Number at the top: 9, number at the left: 3, number at the right: 3, number at the bottom: 7, number at the center: 54. Puzzle: Number at the top: 6, number at the left: 5, number at the right: 4, number at the bottom: 8, number at the center: ?

Can You Solve This Sixth Grade Math Puzzle?

This puzzle requires simple pattern recognition skills.

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Is it correct to ban LLMs in schools ? — A calculator with on the left with a green checkmark on its top, a sign with “LLMs” with a ban marking on the right, and a sign with the following text at the center: “Is it correct to ban LLMs in schools?”

Is It Correct To Ban LLMs in Schools?

The calculator problem all over again!

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The Interesting Number Paradox — A cartoon featuring a happy 5 and a sad 8. On the right of these numbers, the text “What is your favourite number?” stands.

The Curious Case Of The Interesting Number Paradox

What is your favourite number?

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How To Debunk Fake Math Proofs? — a = b; a*a = a*b; a*a — b*b = a*b — b*b; (a+b)*(a-b) = b*(a-b); a+b = b; 2b = b; 2 = 1

How To Debunk Fake Math Proofs?

You spot one, you spot them all!

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May The Fourth Be With You! — A cartoon sketch of R2D2 on the left and the words “Star Wars Math” on the right

May The Fourth Be With You!

A look back at the long-forgotten world of Star Wars Math

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How Did The Moon Come To Be? — A cartoon of a smiling baby moon to the left, and the text “The origins of the moon” to the right.

How Did The Moon Come To Be?

An investigation into the formative years of the Earth and the Moon!

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The Fascinating Story Of The Three-Body Problem — A sketch of three celestial bodies seen eclipsing each other with the text “3-body” problem written to the right of the sketch.

The Fascinating Story Of The Three-Body Problem

A journey through centuries of scientific progress!

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How To Learn Math? — Notes To My Younger Self — A white board text reading “Solve for x (or just don’t)”

How To Learn Math? — Notes To My Younger Self

I wish someone had told me this when I was younger!