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The explosion of repeated multiplication
Why does this exist?
Fold a sheet of paper 42 times and it reaches the Moon. Linear intuition always loses to repeated multiplication.
Part of the Journey of Language — How do we handle what we don't yet know?
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When it opens, it will follow the same flow as every MathIsland lab:
- 1An opening question — the problem this concept solves
- 2Why it was needed — where the old tools failed
- 3Hands-on experiment — sliders, simulations, direct play
- 4Common misconceptions, broken
- 5The idea, written as mathematics
- 6Where you meet it in real life
- 7Connections to the previous and next concepts