Hi people! If you had half an hour a handful of incredibly bright, incredibly bored 10 year olds, what math would you teach them?

The 4th grade math curriculum is letting these kids down, and they are hungry for a challenge...and to see that math can be fun again!

in advance!

@DrTCombs My wife says, "I would do the derivation of e. There's a really cute derivation of e... actually multiple cute derivations of e.

Maybe also derive the pythagorean theorem? There's a geometric proof. If they haven't seen pi by then, they should be introduced to it. They wouldn't understand it fully, but I would show them a youtube video of the harmonics of the riemann zeta function. It's so amazing to see. OOH nonlinear dynamics the butterfly oscillator!"

(And then I cut her off.)

@Andres4NY @DrTCombs always loved the derivation of area under a curve as a summation of infinitely small rectangles.

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@Iragersh @Andres4NY I need to meet your wife.

also, the pythagorean theorem would be FUN!

(the lucky person who gets to work with these kids will be my mom, a retired high school math teacher, so this is well within her wheel house)

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