Mathemagic

A moving numbers game

You can play this game by yourself, on the floor or on a table. You need only five playing cards—an ace, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Lay the cards out just as they are shown in the picture at the top of this…

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Plant Ways

Why leaves change color in autumn

Inside a leaf there are millions of tiny packages of color—yellow, orange, and green. The yellow is called xanthophyll, the orange is carotene, or carotin, and the green is chlorophyll. The green…

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