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Greetings each

How would you react to this ?

2x2=4 3x3=9 4x4=15 5x5=25 6x6=36 7x7=49

Wait a second here.... 4x4=16.

4x4=15?...
I've failed college algebra 3 times with dismally low grades and even I spotted that one subconsciously...how ever my initial reaction was
"Wait, what? That ain't right" then I did the multiplication myself...had the same reaction at first glance for 7x7=49...though I have no idea why as I know it to be correct and still did the math to make sure...

Back in the day when Mike and i were at school, The Times Table was said everyday at some point, form 1x1 right up to 12x12.....

The Old Doris wrote: Back in the day when Mike and i were at school, The Times Table was said everyday at some point, form 1x1 right up to 12x12.....

Catholic school education?

If a 4 year old did it, I'd say "congratulations".

I think even if a seven or eight year old did it that would be pretty decent. I'm not sure about other places, but here we didn't even start studying multiplication until third grade, and we weren't required to know all of the times tables until fourth grade.

I would say that 8x8=63 comes next, but that is just me.

Greetings Each Bows

Interesting comments so far. Of which I'm not surprised at one or two are on the right track. I took this from seminar I went to. Some of it really opened my eyes,more from a Jedi point of view than a work one. I shall reveal more ...later See if anyone else participates. Look at t from a Jedi perspective as that s what we aspire to be.

Thanks for the comments.

Yours in Budo

Mike

I was going to answer about mathematics and ignore the error, say something about how I view multiplication as weighted action in two dimensional space against a value. I dunno if that helps!?