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Antonia Malchik's avatar

Most adults don’t tend to think of math as creative, but I find it very much so. I co-run a math games program that we do with 2nd- and 3rd-graders, and one of my favorite things is if we’ve worked together long enough that the question “What if 2 + 2 did equal 5?” or equivalent comes up. It opens up so much exploration! Of what a number is, of why math exists in the first place, of the fraught history of 0 … it’s all weird and wild.

Humans can’t help being creative. I love that about us.

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Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman's avatar

I appreciated this - thank you Anna! Your writing is just what I needed today ❤️

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