We Love Math: Geometry (part 2) Mystery Cache
We Love Math: Geometry (part 2)
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The cache is not at the posted coordinates.
You must solve the puzzle below to find the geocache. The posted coordinates will take you to a very nice Madison park, which is a great place to play, walk your dog, and play on equipment but there is no cache at that spot.
Congratulations to Marble Guy and WWJunebug for their FTF and thank you for respecting the posted hours!
Congratulations to tmy for first to find and receive extra credit!
I felt like We Love Math: Geometry (part 1) might have been too watered down. I tried shifting the focus from problems to vocabulary to help more people get the green light from the Geochecker. I have another spot picked out for this cache and I hope you enjoy the puzzle and the hide.
Please do not hunt this at night. The final is on public property which has posted hours of when it is open and it is in a residential area. Thank you for respecting the hours and neighbors (big smiley face)
Both of my boys love math and so do I. We feel very lucky they are receiving an excellent education from such wonderful teachers. Not only do the public schools have amazing classroom teachers, the support teachers for students with special needs or students in need of challenges through acceleration or alternative instructional modalities are also fantastic. To hear the teachers talk passionately about each child’s development is such an uplifting experience.
As a high school math teacher, I know math can be challenging for students, so I have included the geochecker for the puzzle.
The geocache can be found at the coordinates
N 43° JK.LMN
W 089°PQ.RST
To find each coordinate, you must solve the following ten math problems [yes it is a test, and I know you may not like that, but hey, nobody said you had to go find this geocache, right? ;-) ].
Each problem has ten answers. Each answer has a digit 0-9 associated with it.
Example problem: What is the ones digit of pi?
3 - use 0
1 - use 1
4 - use 2
5 - use 3
9 - use 4
2 - use 5
6 - use 6
7 - use 7
0 - use 8
8 - use 9
The correct answer is 3, so you would use 0 since that is the matching answer.
Please note that the correct answer will usually not match with the digit to place in the puzzle.
Are your pencils sharpened? Did you pick up a piece of scratch paper to use? Is your phone a friend ready? Good luck, you can do it….believe in yourself.
The problems can be found in the attached images We Love Math Geometry part 2 problems which can be accessed below or on the images page.
Extra Credit (smiley face) I often have students who ask, “When will I ever use this?” For extra credit, include in your log when you have used Geometry in either your job or your life. Writing “I never use math” or any negative comments will be accepted in the log but will not earn you extra credit.
I will keep track of a high honor roll which will consist of those with finds and extra credit on the We Love Math: Algebra part 1, part 2, and We Love Math: Geometry part 1 and part 2 caches.
High Honor Roll (3 find, 3 extra credit logs)
Commander USN
curllord
Honor Roll (1 or 2 extra credit logs on any in series)
j&k&kids
froggerz
kadfar
tmy
Lions Fan
08rocklady
tree4416
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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