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The Beauty of Mathematics
Is this a thing?
Will it continue?
How will it continue if it does continue?
Can you show why it works?

Does something interesting happen in a prime base like Base-7 or Base-13?

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It's easy enough to just multiply them and see, but see if your students can figure out what method or reasoning each person used.

Which ones make sense to you?
Which one is the most clever?

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What mark out of 3 would you give?

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A "happy" stack of bricks has a contiguous bottom row of bricks and each brick thereafter sits on half-lengths of one or two bricks below it. There is 1 happy stack with just one brick; 3 happy stacks with two bricks. How many with three bricks? Four?

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Which is better?

I have explained like 1,000 times this year that "exact" answer means leave it in terms of roots and \( \pi \) etc, but kids interpret a crazy decimal as more "exact" lol.

Anyone have better verbiage?
— Bowman Dickson 🏳️‍🌈 (@bowmanimal)

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TickTokMaths considers this the worst problem ever because the area and perimeter are the same numerical values, so students might find the area by adding up the sides.

What are some other shapes that have the same numerical value of perimeter and area? (Understanding that perimeter is \( m \) and area is \( m^2 \) )

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You could legitimately interpret this as

Right leaning: 25%
Left leaning: 45%
Print and Internet: 25%

What other ways could you interpret this set of results?

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that's it.