Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 30 Issue 2, April 1992
21 – 25
Birthdays: A Rich Source of Problems
K. Allen Neufeld
One of the happy things that most of us remember from our elementary school days was the attention that was given to birthdays. Apart from students with birthdays celebrated during school holidays, everyone had the pleasant experience of being ”birthday girl,. or “birthday boy·’ once a year. Birthdays can provide the basic numerical data which give rise to mathematical problems and activities related to graphing, probability and computation. The data can be presented in one or more of the concrete, pictorial or symbolic modes.
