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ERIC Number: EJ970049
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jan
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0746-8342
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Martin Gardner's Mistake
Khovanova, Tanya
College Mathematics Journal, v43 n1 p20-24 Jan 2012
When Martin Gardner first presented the Two-Children problem, he made a mistake in its solution. Later he corrected the error, but unfortunately the incorrect solution is more widely known than his correction. In fact, a Tuesday-Child variation of this problem went viral in 2010, and the same flaw keeps reappearing in proposed solutions of that problem too. In this article, we re-visit Martin Gardner's correction and discuss the new problem in detail.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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