For most of us, math is a red rag and kids are no different. Packed into a game however, Math can be fun and easy. And once motivation kicks in, ambition will follow and your kids may easily master even difficult exercises.

Here are five cool free Internet games for kids that will get your own kid interested and motivated in Mathematics.

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What feedback or experiences do you have to share about the FINRA Series 3?

That’s last night.

Over 12,000 contracts traded in two five-minute periods, over 10,000 right up on the time of that spike.

There was no news of any sort related to the US markets on the wire last night.  Zero.  None.  I and many others were wondering what the heck caused that.

This morning, the buying began in earnest at 8:30 Central, and then again at 10:00 Eastern – one hour in front of the “announcement”, again on heavy volume.

Where is the SEC?

Where is the SEC’s demand for trading records on these contracts, particularly the ones last night on Globex?

That was a highly unusual trading pattern that strongly suggested that someone knew something and acted on it front of a news release.

Well, now we have the news release.  It sure wasn’t the (bad) unemployment or (neutral) GDP numbers.

So what’s left?

Yeah.

Evidence of some front running on Fed data? You be the judge!

Honeybee hordes use two weapons – heat and carbon dioxide – to kill their natural enemies, giant hornets.

Japanese honeybees form “bee balls” – mobbing and smothering the predators.

This has previously been referred to as “heat-balling”, but a study has now shown that carbon dioxide also plays a role in its lethal effectiveness.

In the journal Naturwissenschaften, the scientists describe how hornets are killed within 10 minutes when they are trapped inside a ball of bees.

Are there analogies for human behavior or interactions here?