Depending on how casual the conversation:

“They lied to you about what math is.”

“They colonized and dehumanized math; they stole math from us. It exists in our very bodies, and creativities, and they tried to sell us the story that it only exists in their minds and textbooks.”

44x4 is 176.
(40 fours + 4 fours / 160 + 16)

88 x 8 is 4 times greater than 44 x 4
(44 x 2 x 4 x 2 = 88 x 8)

Double 176 is 352
Double 352 is 704

44 x 2 x 4 x 2 = 704
So 88 x 8 = 704

Writing the alt text for the table made me think more about how it works as a multiplication table!

If 1000 is in the 8 row, than I know I need 125 at the top of that column. Sequence of odds is 2x+1, so when y is 125, x is 62. So I think 1000 is in the 8 row (4th row) and 62nd column!
#ANNMath

Like I said, I'm not quite there yet, but I wanted to share my work so far because I feel like there must be so many different ways to approach this, and I'm curious what others do. #ANNMath

The Northern Lights (Minneapolis, MN)

I’m not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but I think Rough Draft Math by @mandymathed.bsky.social has a lot to say about risk taking.

Next I tried it with Fig. 13. I created a grid in the center of each square unit to see if it would that have the same area as the figure we can build with the corners from Figure 11, removing the center, and pushing the corners together.

Another pattern emerged when I started playing around with creating a grid in the center of each sq unit

The area of the blue figure is 61 sq units.

I noticed the grid by itself had an area of 40 sq units. It also looked a lot like the figure we got we we added corners to our original figure

I decided to create similar figures to have more to explore to look for patterns.

I used the second figure from the launch (11 squares high and 11 squares wide as opposed to 9) and “filled in the corners.”

#ANNMath #MTBoS

I wondered what would happen if we “finished” the square by filling in the corners.

Looking at just the green area, I rearranged the pieces to look similar to the original figure. The figure felt similar, but like an “even” version.

#ANNMath #CAMImath
#MTBoS

Crop art nurtures through inspiration, and humor.

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