Brazos Valley Math Teachers' Circle
2010
Meeting 1 Part A
Dots and Boxes
Dr. Aaron Lauve
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
Dots and Boxes
Abstract
Dots are successively put into to a row of boxes. When a box becomes too full, the dots explode and a dot is placed in the neighboring box. What are the possible numbers in each box?
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