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A wise man once said, “I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.” If that sounds eerily similar to your current work schedule, you may enjoy this browser-based puzzle game, Cement Tower.

It’s an addictive mix of Tetris and Jenga with the welcome addition of explosions. The goal is simple: stack blocks up into the sky until one of them touches a strategically placed glowing star. You’ll need to battle the laws of physics and hovering helicopter mines along the way.

Touch a mine and your structure explodes, forcing you to start over. Fail to outwit gravity and your structure will topple to the ground. You have the ability to cement your current structure in place even as it’s falling over, although you’ll need to use your cement bags sparingly while attempting to pick bonus bags up along the way.

The first 10 levels are free to play, which ought to be enough to either get you hooked or remind that Tetris, Jenga, and architecture aren’t your strong suits. Additional 10-level packs run a buck apiece, for a total outlay of three bucks should you take on all 40 levels.

Cement Tower [Wild Pockets]

First let’s see what is the role and purpose of mathematics and what is this about. The whole universe is made of patterns. By investigating patterns we have the chance to discover, observe, experiment and create. Once you have the necessary data you can tell in advance what it might happen next and to approximate if one pattern like that will happen even when the variables are changed and the pattern begin to increase.
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The job of mathematics is to look for different kind of patterns, verify unproved theories and demonstrate the correct version by using various definitions or axioms and in the end to draw conclusions.

Mathematics is a science (or group of associated sciences) that have to do with structure, quantity, change and space. Constantly something new is added.

Since Thales who was a wise man from Greece and the first true mathematician, mathematics evolved gradually from counting, measurement, calculation and the research of the motions and shapes of real objects.

Nowadays, mathematics is used worldwide like an indispensable instrument in various areas as engineering, natural science, medicine and the social sciences . Due to a multitude of experiments this led to remarkable discoveries and also some new entirely disciplines.

Despite all this benefits that math offers there are a limited number of people interested in this science. Many of us consider math boring but the reason is that until we can figure it out we cannot see how interesting is maybe more appealing than football, hanging out with friends or going to the movies.

Many kids hate math, they don’t like numbers, equations or formulas and when teachers try to make them understand math exercises they always are with the mind somewhere else.

,,Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.” Albert Einstein

So, with no interest in this matter kids think that math is boring. You must try to make math fun to learn, that way is easier. But it seems that there are lots of ways to get to the point where you find math interesting. You have to try a different approach.

All you have to do is think of something that you’re already interested in and to find a connection between that and math.

All what kids like to do is playing therefore they love games . So, applying the above mention technique math based games is trick perfect for children and teenagers in order to learn math.

Uninterested children, negligent or confused adolescents can sharpen their skills, measure efficiency and most important have fun . This could be the future of education, making teachers less stressed therefore happy. Boring math will turn in to cool math.

Being recognized as instructive tools, math games manage to offer both fun and learning without annoying children . By playing cool math games, it was scientifically demonstrated that kids learn quicker.

Below you can find some cool math tricks, first one represents a way that you can guess the whole phone number using math.

Let’s say that your phone number is: 473 0258 just for prove

1. Take a calculator
2. Insert the first three numbers of your phone number (besides the area code)
3. Multiply it by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 numbers of your phone number
7. Add the last 4 numbers of your phone number again.
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2

Surprise! What do you see?

And another trick:

Think of a number and keep it secret. Then double the secret number. Multiply it by 5.
Find the total.
Whatever the total is, take off the last number and you will have the secret number that you initially selected.

Online resources provide cool math games designed for pre-school kids through parents. This clever and interactive games motivates kids, they always appreciate goals and rewards. Children can also check if their answers from these games that generates in fact math problems, are correct.

Parents have to try to help their kids to think about math differently. The poor things are struggling in math and they need a jumping off point.

Books are another way to achieve great results. They can help in understand numbers better and also to see the simplicity and beauty of mathematics . You can find books easy to read and understand from which you can start to practice math chapter by chapter.

Plenty of books contain hands-on activities, quizzes, games, drawings that pop out and lot of cool math tricks. Also you can find on internet E-books that offer mind stimulation in a fascinating way.

But taking into consideration how important is education for their future and realizing that math is at every step we make in life, parents understood that is crucial for their children one way or another to get to learn math.

So the solution seems to be mixing math with games and start using cool math games like a fun tool for learning . Playing math games they have the chance to count, add, takeaway, multiply and divide and in the same time stimulate them in having an open mind .  As long as kids are motivated to win games they are not aware they are doing or learning math.

Homework seems to be boring that’s why, cool math games can help kids to become one of the best in their class and in the mean time parents are satisfied. This technique really works and everybody is happy.

The fact that children don’t understand math can make them to think less of themselves and this can affect them in a psychologically way on a long term.

Teachers can help students to understand math by involving them in interactive activities inside the classroom between each other.

I own a jewellery shop and was astonished when I found some of my jewellery missing from my shop. This was a regular pattern, and every fifteen days I used to find some of my jewellery missing and I was very depressed to how to know who the culprit is. I could not concentrate on my work as I was getting loss every fortnight. I even gave police complain but in vain. The thief was so clever that hardly any clue was left behind by him so that he could be caught. I was not getting the way out of this situation. Then I shared my problem with my brother. He was a very wise man and he also owned a jewellery shop. He suggested me to how to safeguard our property. He had installed a CCTV hidden cameras in his shop for the safety. Though he had no thefts in his shop, but still on precautionary measures, he had installed the camera before any untoward incident took place. He suggested me to log on to internet and check with many websites for the details of the hidden camera. He told me that they have a variety of cameras of all various shapes and sizes and with affordable price too. He had bought the camera from them.

I discussed the matter with my wife and we immediately decided to have a look at the cameras which have been displayed on different websites so that we could manage to choose one according to our facility. To our surprise we got an opportunity to have a look at the different cameras all exceptionally good with reasonable price tags. From that we chose the nanny cams and we got it within a few days after placing an order online. Really shopping online could be a fun as well as saving time for the people who are quite busy and unable to visit to the nearest malls for their shopping. I was happy that I had discussed the matter with my brother who in return gave me such a good advice to buy and install the camera which we bought from the website.

After installing the hidden cams, I was a bit relaxed, but still could not concentrate until and unless the thief was caught. Whoever was the culprit least knew that I had already taken the precautionary step for my safety and for his waywardness. As usual he was ready to set about the routine job of picking up some of the jewellery from the shop. Least he might have realized that this attempt was his last attempt. The very next day I approached the police and I told them that I had caught the thief with evidence and they should now arrest him for the trouble he had been creating all these days with me. The police was in action and even the thief was astonished that this time he was caught red handed. The thief was none other than my own security guard whom I had employed for the safety of my shop least knowing that the man whom I had employed for the security only would play the mischief with me.

We’ve been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s journalistic elite. ChromeOS can’t beat anything. In fact suggesting that ChromeOS will beat Windows or even OS X is like expecting Coby to come up behind Sony and Samsung next year in Blu-Ray player popularity. As a wise man once said “Ain’t the same ** ballpark. It ain’t the same league, it ain’t even the same ** sport.”

ChromeOS is a specialized version of Linux designed for netbooks. It is more like Android than anything else and, as Fake Steve notes, no one will use it. Oh, manufacturers will pay lip service to it and maybe someone will install it on a few million machines but it will be a drop in the bucket compared to the powerful web OSes called Windows 7 and OS X.

ChromeOS, like Android, is a bargaining chip. OEMs can wave ChromeOS in Microsoft’s face and reduce they price they have to pay per PC for installing Windows. It won’t work, but they’ll try. Die-hard Linux users will stick with Linux and the average consumer, when presented with Chrome, will ask where the Start menu went.

Google can use ChromeOS to scare Microsoft and move more people to GMail and Google Office apps. That’s about it. And the people that move will be limited to the very few OEMs who will install ChromeOS on new machines. Netbooks are going the way of the Dodo and the race to the bottom will cause them to disappear, replaced by more powerful ultralights that will fill out the middle of the laptop market. These ultralights will be running Windows 7, not Chrome.

Fake Steve explains it all thus:

To put it another way, have you ever met anyone who said they’d really like to try out that Interwebs thing, but they’re just put off by the low-quality operating systems and browsers that are available at this time, so they’re sitting it out for now? Or like maybe they’re on the Internet now but they would just be soooo inclined to spend soooo much more time on the Web, and they’d be soooo much more likely to actually click on the ads, if the OS and browser made it somehow less onerous to, um, type in a URL and go to a page? Nah, the only point in Google giving away a free browser and OS is somehow to fuck up Microsoft. (And/or to do some sneaky shit that helps Google screw users a little bit more efficiently. See Point 8 below.) But on the anti-Microsoft angle, take it from someone who has spent the past 10 years selling a superior operating system and getting only 4 percent market share — as obsessions go, battling the Borg is waaay overrated.

And he’s absolutely right. Anyone can make a Linux install disk, call it “Super Google Linux” and rock out. There even was a Google OS – albeit an unofficial one – called gOS. And we all saw how well that went. Hell, you can even make Hanna Montana Linux for newbies but that doesn’t mean newbies will install it or manufacturers will use it. There’s no reason.

Android I’m bullish on. Android is a real threat to Windows Mobile and the HTC Hero put the first chink in Microsoft’s Mobile armor. But the HTC Hero isn’t a Google product, Google gets no cash from it, and, you’ll notice, HTC has modified Android to an extent that makes it closer to the Palm Pre than anything else. HTC took Google’s free operating system and stripped out the Google.

ChromeOS isn’t a threat. In fact it’s not even on Microsoft’s radar. It’s nice that Google is offering their philanthropic OS for all and sundry (incidentally, what are the tax implications of this kind of project?) But can it beat Windows? No and never.