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A basic-looking math puzzle is going viral for a very unexpected reason: the answers seem totally wrong - until you crack the ...

I certainly didn’t think it was something ... who pull the monitor trick—though I did have trouble finding people who wanted to discuss it in an open forum. A number of people I heard from ...

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Philip Henslowe wrote down the instructions for the trick in his diary More than ... The volunteer is asked to think of a number from one to 12 and a card in the circle, keeping both secret.

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This view ignores the science that says all humans have an inherent number sense and ... Teaching math as a set of tricks tells kids that we don’t think they can understand what’s on the ...