Tag: math teachers at play 38

Welcome to the May 20, 2011 edition of Math Teachers at Play. Before beginning the carnival, let us have some interesting facts about 38.

• The sum of the squares first three primes
• The number of years it took the Israelites to travel from Kadesh Barnea to the Zered valley in Deuteronomy
• There number of surviving plays written by William Shakespeare
• The atomic number of strontium
• Thirty seven and 38 are the first pair of consecutive positive integers not divisible by any of their digits.