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When you finally find a real life solution you can apply maths to:

Picture of 2 cats, both share a box but one is also in another box.

Formula (x+x^y)^y but x is a cat drawing and y a box drawing.

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‘Exploring triangles at the Institute of Mathematics Pedagogy (IMP)’
Tandi Clausen-May reflects on an exploration of 3D shapes made from triangles.

https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT295/03.pdf

One of the two free articles from Mathematics Teaching 295 for non-members.
#geometry #triangle #helix #polydron #MathematicsTeaching #atm #MT #MT295 #iTeachMath #MathEd #Math #Education #mathematics

Photographs of colourful 3D shapes made from Polydron triangles.
Figure 11. Joining tetrahedra.
Figure 12. Quadruple helix.
Figure 13. One-ribbon triple helix.
Figure 14. Two-ribbon triple helix.

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“The USA Math Olympiad is an extremely challenging math competition for the top US high school students… Hours after it was completed…a team of scientists gave the problems to some of the top large language models, whose mathematical and reasoning abilities have been loudly proclaimed… The results were dismal: None of the AIs scored higher than 5% overall”
—Ernest Davis & Gary Marcus, Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of-llms-mastering-math-have
#mathematics #llms #llm #ai

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