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The Curious Range of √x²
Imagine you are given this function: y = √x^2. This function takes the square root of the square of a number, which sounds a lot like the square root and the exponent of 2 cancel…
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Why are percentages reversible?
In school, you’ve probably learned how to find 10% of 25 or 50% of 4 or something along those lines. While you may be able to do 50% of 4 in your head, as 50% means half and…
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Explaining Bases and Exploding Dots
Have you ever wonder why our numbers have a ones place, a tens place, a hundreds place, etc.? The numbers we are used to are on a system called base ten. This means…
How do numbers work?
This weblog aims to bend a student’s knowledge of mathematical concepts
to better appreciate the way numbers work.
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This blog caters to young students by using simple language and detailed breakdowns of concepts. My goal is to spread a deeper understanding of the math that happens behind the scenes in problems they encounter at school.
Dive into the world that happens behind the scenes of the problems given in grade school classes.
What is happening in mathematics? In what new ways has math advanced research and technology recently? Who are the biggest brains in the math world right now?
Numbers can work in very interesting ways. Why do square numbers have an odd number of factors? Isn’t it odd that every prime number is next to a multiple of six?
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Who Am I? What Are My Goals?
Hello! My name is Carolina Jordan, and I’m currently a senior in high school. I live in New York City and attend a small school where I teach classes of fifth and sixth graders who are very passionate about math. I want to extend my knowledge beyond my schoolhouse into the rest of the city and into the world. Inspiring young students to explore the mathematical world beyond their classes is important to me, as so much of learning in grade school is copying down and memorizing formulas without understanding why the formulas work. This blog combines my loves of math, writing, and teaching. The math concepts I write about are very interesting to me, and I hope to interest others with these ideas, whether they love math or not!
