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AoPS: Resigned Resolutions

Since I always fail my New Year's resolutions, this year, my New Year's resolutions are:

1. Make a new year's resolution
2. Fail my new year's resolution

Am I guaranteed to succeed? Guaranteed to fail? Something else?

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AoPS: Weird Equation

Let weird(n) be the number of ways to write n as a + a + b + c, where n, a, b, and c are distinct positive integers. Is weird(n) an increasing function?

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Harriet Ball: No problem today, just a video of an amazing maths teacher

I first came across Harriet Ball many years ago. One of her daughters sadly took all of Harriet’s videos down. They used Harriet’s methods to develop the curriculum for the USA KIPP Public Charter Schools network.

I use several of her times tables methods with my own students.

One very special lady, who sadly died at too young an age.

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