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I've been toying with some potential activities that involve division. Today we'll look at an activity that makes heavy use of division and partitions, skinned as a factory trying to make as many nanobots as possible.

Rubik's cubes have a strange place in our pop culture as artifacts that only geniuses can solve, but the many guides on solving them have made solution techniques pretty accessible to a wide audience. Mathematicians like them because they provide a shiny introduction to group theory that leave students with a neat party trick. Today we'll look at the "pocket cube" (the 2x2x2 version, typically abbreviated 2x2), which I've had good luck introducing to beginners.

As our community math circle prepares to run Magic Flowers, I've been looking at extensions and related problems. Here we'll look at a series of puzzles that also require certain sums to be the same.

Gord Hamilton's Kickstarter for The Infinite Pickle is very close to meeting its goal, so I thought today we'd look at a small corner of Boring Conversations , an activity from this collection that was presented this week at the Math Incubator workshop.