Thankfully the system here worked sensibly and recorded everything here as correct. He took great pleasure in looking through the ‘correct’ answers after it was marked and seeing that they differed.

I don’t know, just some school homework system. He’s in year 6, last year of primary school.

So weird. These are shapes humans have found it convenient to arrange food into, nothing more.

I remember years ago a friend of mine being outraged by the idea that veggie substitutes use the terms ‘burger’ and ‘sausage’. I asked him which bit of the animal is its ‘sausage’.

He’d made this map of seven regions where the two that are brown here are discontiguous parts of the same country, as are the blues. This isn’t covered by the FCT, but still - what a thing for a 10 year old to come up with!

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Lovely day for it.

My first time at the INI and it was very pleasing to give a talk in the room where Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

“Reading from left to right. And then addition and subtraction, again in either order.”

I think he’s got it. I explained how multiplication & division are the same thing, and addition & subtraction. He seemed fine with it.

We told him lots of people struggle with this. “Why? It’s easy!”

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