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Twenty-five is an odd number that is between twenty-four and twenty-six. It is the square of 5 and is also the fifth square number after 1, 4, 9, and 16. What’s cool about this number is that adding the squares of 3 and 4 will give us the square of 5! Does this excite you […]

By the time you start teaching words that start with K, the child is likely to have built quite a good vocabulary already. But even so, you can’t put a cap on an expansive vocabulary, as words play such a huge part in our lives. Therefore, your child must build a vocabulary comprising many words […]

Introduction: Can you imagine when you get to be 60 years old? It seems like it is so far away. However, it will be here before you know it. Let’s say you are reaching this milestone, and you would like to celebrate these 60 years for the next 60 days. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? So, […]

Triangular numbers are numbers that may be represented by dots in such a way that they will form an equilateral triangle – where there is equal number of dots on each side. Forty-five is one of these triangular numbers. What makes 45 more interesting is that the sum of all single-digit numbers is 45. So, […]

Introduction At a large corporation with thousands of employees, the company had to make arrangements with its employees who work around the world. There are 13 branches located in 4 different hemispheres around the world. They had to make sure that they did not have too many employees taking their week-long vacation break all at […]

PROBLEM: Regardless of family income or background, countless research studies show student academic performance is heavily tied to parent involvement. Schools and districts work hard to provide various equitable family engagement solutions to get families more involved. Unfortunately, across the board, most schools fail to provide equitable supplemental educational resources to families to support student […]

Introduction: Past high school data is being collected by a local city organization. The graduation years were divided among two clerks at the organization. The first clerk, Tommy, took the first 63 years, and Evelyn took the last 63 years. Each clerk had to spend time researching and gathering the data for each of those […]

Introduction With only 72 days until Christmas, Tony wants to start buying presents for his large family now. He has 24 people to buy presents for. Of course, every member wants something unique. It takes Tony quite a while to find the perfect present for each family member. Tony decides to spend a few days […]

Introduction In a car, a car racer knows that with every rev of the engine, the odometer needle climbs steadily 7 times. If he revs it seven times without the odometer needle falling at all, if that is all possible, how many times will he rev his engine to reach 35 miles per hour? Consider […]

Introduction Can you recite your best friend’s phone number? Probably not thanks to our cell phones where we just have to press our friend’s name and our cell phone instantly dials him. However, there was a time when we had to memorize phone numbers. Today, I can barely remember my own. Including the area code, […]