A game: Balloons and dice One of the authors of this story, Ann Kajander, has a book Big Ideas for Growing Mathematicians with lots of activities to do at home. One is “Balloons and Dice ...

Buffett was a fan of these dice, calling them a "mathematical curiosity" that "confound most people's ideas about probability." Presh Talwalkar lays out the rules of the Buffett-Gates game in a ...

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe is at heart a game of fractal structure, per math teacher Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings. Players must balance two levels, an element that requires them to ...

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Marcus du Sautoy is a mathematician who loves games, travel, and, unsurprisingly, math. His new book is titled "Around the World in 80 Games: A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest ...

The dice decide. Although video games often use similar systems to decide the outcome of a player’s actions, the dice roll itself — the machinery of chance — is typically concealed.