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104. The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart

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How to Introduce Kids to Graph Theory

Writing one of those branching stories seems to me to be a great way to introduce kids to graph theory absolutely you could write branching stories there are other ways of using graph theory into connections between networks. There's a fun detective story that incorporates mathematics by looking at when particular set of suspects said they were in a place and who they saw when they were there because then you can draw a little graph  and based on a few little facts about graphs you can then spot who is lying so that's a kind of fun investigation you could do. The other thing with younger children even asked them to think about fairy tales and what numbers are in fairy tales because if you think of the stories of your childhood

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