Students analyze items from the media to answer mathematical questions related to the article. This month features two news clips on a lottery winner; the mathematics involved includes probability and combinatorics and some locus problems.

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Edited by Louis Lim, louis.lim1@gmail.com Thornhill Secondary School, Thornhill, ON, Canada

Lionel Garrison, garrison@horacemann.org Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY

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Ron Lancaster, ron2718@nas.net, is a senior lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His interests include photographs and videos of mathematics, Math Trails, magic, and puns.

(Corresponding author is Lancaster ron2718@nas.net)
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