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Person asking: Home schooling parent While teaching the multiplication table to my daughter I noticed an interesting pattern. It goes something like ...add two to it ...multiply the two numbers together ...add one to the resulting number ...it will now be equal to the original number plus one, squared. ![]() ![]() |
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Hi Melissa, You can "picture" the equation [X ![]() then you can move the last column to make it a row of 6 pennies on top: ![]() now you only need to put the single penny in the north-east corner to complete a 7 by 7 square of pennies. Later on in school, your daughter will learn algebra
so she will learn to expand expressions such as X ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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