An idea I have had about math that I find intellectually engaging is that math does not just help people weigh and measure things. Most people think of math as enabling them to find the area or volume of a geometric shape or determine how many miles to the gallon an automobile gets, but math actually describes relationships between things as well. For example, in a triangle, two of the three angles added together determine how big the third angle can be. The three angles a
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