I hope that today and always you have lots of love in your heart and that you feel so much love from others. Have a wonderful Valentine’s Day!
A Valentines Puzzle
Here is a Valentines themed mystery level puzzle from me to you:
Factors of 1454
- 1454 is a composite number.
- Prime factorization: 1454 = 2 × 727
- 1454 has no exponents greater than 1 in its prime factorization, so √1454 cannot be simplified.
- The exponents in the prime factorization are 1, and 1. Adding one to each exponent and multiplying we get (1 + 1)(1 + 1) = 2 × 2 = 4. Therefore 1454 has exactly 4 factors.
- The factors of 1454 are outlined with their factor pair partners in the graphic below.
Interesting Fact about the Number 1454:
From OEIS.org we learn that 11+444+555+444=1454.
Mathematical Valentine Tweets I’ve Seen Today:
Happy Valentine’s Day! Mathematician @FryRsquared
talks about patterns in how we look for love in her TED Talk: https://t.co/wd4r9qrX7g pic.twitter.com/JLDt3zpJcu— AQA Maths (@AQAMaths) February 14, 2020
Happy Valentines day 🙂 Here’s a little valentines inspired mathematical colouring to ease your class into half term this afternoon…. pic.twitter.com/hWpXUaVM3Z
— Great North Maths Hub (@GNMH_MathsHub) February 14, 2020
Wishing you all a Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️ Share this heart curve (cardioid) and your love for mathematics with friends, loved ones and someone special your life revolves around! 😊 #ValentinesDay #50FamousCurves pic.twitter.com/zDuOWbZF2p
— Tamás Görbe (@TamasGorbe) February 14, 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day! We are grateful for all the ❤️ you have shown us and for sharing your ❤️ of #GeoGebra with your colleagues & students! https://t.co/cHpm2slGmx pic.twitter.com/msQ6sy4amI
— GeoGebra (@geogebra) February 14, 2020
I discovered these Henderson spirals with similar quadrilaterals thanks to Daniel Scher @dpscher. @jamestanton also wrote about it (link in Daniel’s blogpost). https://t.co/Or8zqrCXLT
— Vincent Pantal🍩ni (@panlepan) February 14, 2020
— MEHMET ALİ OĞUR (@maliuhud) February 13, 2020
Happy #ValentinesDay2020 ! Want to have a go at making some origami hearts? Have a read of our newsletter to find out how: https://t.co/il072Q9Eq5 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/6jjw1oSNIt
— MEI (@MEIMaths) February 14, 2020
¡Feliz #MathValentin! Te quiero 1000.#stringart @geogebra #SanValentin2020 pic.twitter.com/AopVdLxnSF
— archimedestub (@archimedestub) February 14, 2020
Apparently ‘only Smarties have the answer,’ but there’s a high probability that actually maths has the answer.
Secondary school maths teacher @Bobby_Seagull of University Challenge fame is using maths to solve his problems in dating. https://t.co/08I2S3rNIG#ValentinesDay #Maths pic.twitter.com/0iXdEiw9TJ— IMA (@IMAmaths) February 14, 2020
Valentine day with @geogebra https://t.co/g4o276wymD#geogebra #mathart #MTBoS #ITeachMath #math #maths #mathgif #geometry #MathEd @bancoche @PerHenrikChris1 pic.twitter.com/i5IUIIMq8n
— Daniel Mentrard (@dment37) February 14, 2020
Happy Fractal Valentine’s Day! https://t.co/WyJGGApXXH pic.twitter.com/5MYOaTpXq9
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) February 14, 2020
Si alguna vez experimentas este sentimiento, querrás volver a hacerlo. Aquella fue mi primera vez y, como el primer beso, fue muy especial. Entonces supe que podía llamarme matemático.
◼️ Edward Frenkel, Amor y Matemáticas: El corazón de la realidad oculta.#SanValentin2020 pic.twitter.com/rKa3WB7FRz
— Julio Mulero (@juliomulero) February 14, 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day! Thanks for this cute problem @mashupmath 😊#iteachmath #heartperimeter #heartarea #MTBoS pic.twitter.com/mMgxpXiF3W
— Regina Barrett ✨ (@Ms_MathQueen) February 14, 2020
No #mathdate today. Instead, in celebratration of #psiloveyouday 💜 , let’s recognize the power of love #iteachmath #mtbos pic.twitter.com/MfMuDtguoC
— James Carr (@jjc578) February 14, 2020
Molt interessant per a estudiants, entra en https://t.co/Kv5Nu6tTw0 i tens un nou Applet de Geogebra per a participar en l’Applet del mes de @SEMCV pic.twitter.com/oN7YUFqOTq
— SEMCV (@SEMCV) February 14, 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day!#valentine #love #heart #math pic.twitter.com/lsk4SX5HaW
— Mathigon (@MathigonOrg) February 14, 2020
Today’s #dailymaths problem from the Mathematics 2020 calendar in pic. Solution will post tomorrow. Daily problems with previous day’s solution are tweeted ~6am Eastern. Solutions by me and/or @MathsTim unless otherwise stated. Guest solution posts welcome–DM if interested. pic.twitter.com/udJA0rPAgl
— Great Women of Mathematics (@GWOMaths) February 14, 2020
Give your students some timely & relevant math tomorrow! 14 math tasks on Valentine’s Day, President’s Day & the NBA All Star Weekend https://t.co/IerOAxyGyA #iteachmath #mtbos #msmath #elemmath pic.twitter.com/PamfncVcG5
— Brian Marks (@Yummymath) February 13, 2020
#HappyValentines Send a rotated cardioid curve to someone you love ❤️ pic.twitter.com/ihDM0h8ljp
— UCL Department of Mathematics (@MathematicsUCL) February 14, 2020
Oh my gosh you all! Thanks for all the likes, follows, retweets, and for spreading the math love! You blew up my Twitter and made me smile all night. Here is a link in case you didn’t see! #teach180 #iteachmath https://t.co/FdIGc00O4D
— Cassandra Valenti (@MathWithMrsV) February 14, 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day! #mtbos #iteachmath https://t.co/m1LC6dGaho
— Math912Teacher (@Math912Teacher) February 14, 2020
Who’d have thought there were so many ways to say it, in the language of Maths?! https://t.co/AZaSj2wMN3
— CamsMaths (@CamsMaths) February 14, 2020
❤️🧮❤️📐❤️📏❤️✏️❤️
For those maths teachers lucky enough to be working today, did you know that @aap03102’s Valentine’s Day Maths Relay is available as a OneNote Escape Room? 🔐
Link here: https://t.co/hSTDkNCbtK pic.twitter.com/GpnfN2SLbh— Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) February 14, 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day 😁😁❤ #valentinesday pic.twitter.com/g1ljxnLHvX
— Matematickcom (@Matematickcom) February 14, 2020
❤️🧮❤️📐❤️📏❤️✏️❤️
For those maths teachers lucky enough to be working today, did you know that @aap03102’s Valentine’s Day Maths Relay is available as a OneNote Escape Room? 🔐
Link here: https://t.co/hSTDkNCbtK pic.twitter.com/GpnfN2SLbh— Mr Allan (@mrallanmaths) February 14, 2020
Thanks to math you can play with a heart without anyone getting hurt 😉 Check out this cool interactive geometry! #ValentinesDay #STEAM https://t.co/JYhOOHtNQZ
— Bedtime Math (@BedtimeMath) February 14, 2020
48 and 75 are ‘betrothed’ numbers, because the positive nontrivial divisors of 48 (2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24) sum to 75, and the positive nontrivial divisors of 75 (3, 5, 15, 25) sum to 48. https://t.co/Zfq2ckHWWV #ValentineMaths pic.twitter.com/qMoevWZBhj
— Maths Ed (@MathsEdIdeas) February 13, 2020
Here’s a valentines day puzzle. Can you figure out what it says?
i²i³ (x² + y² – 1)³ – x²y³ = 0 ∫ 1 du#MTBoS
— David Wees (@davidwees) February 14, 2020
#valentines from my favourite year 10s! pic.twitter.com/08cBf2pJDz
— stephenbodman (@stephenbodman) February 14, 2020
#HaceNueveAños ¡Feliz día de San Valentín matemático!
¡Con la banda de Möbius!https://t.co/tQUQhI4i94 pic.twitter.com/Yai2s7dLJc— Marta Macho Stadler (@MartaMachoS) February 14, 2020
My kindergartener made this for the 100th day of school, out of 100 perler beads. I thought it would be a real challenge but she naturally figured out how to make an almost-symmetrical design. We had some good talks about odd and even as a result. #tmwyk @_jmnoonan pic.twitter.com/zmwWxIS21y
— Heidi Fessenden 🌎 (@heidifessenden) February 13, 2020
“A unique valentine’s card that uses binary to tell the recipient that they are your number 1 person.” A secret message in 1s and 0s. Source: https://t.co/VmbIqzWzGg pic.twitter.com/P5PeCigzTZ
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) February 14, 2020
Some infinitely adorable #ValentinesDay math from @elclimo 😀#mathjokes pic.twitter.com/04u0f3pD4G
— Bedtime Math (@BedtimeMath) February 14, 2020
I hope those tweets help fuel your love for mathematics. Have a very happy Valentines’ Day!