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Prize Numbers

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Students explore what a proof is, how and why mathematicians create them and compose essays on how reason and logic are employed in the workplace. They explore whether any three lines can make a triangle and attempt to verify Goldbach's conjecture.

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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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1 hr
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