The MathLore cast
Each friend shows you one idea by how they act. Meet them all and see how the ideas fit together.
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Heap Counting-as-first-story — every people figured out their own way to count -
Spire Pattern-as-discovery — patterns are everywhere when you slow down enough to see them -
Vouch Proof-as-shared-knowledge — show me why; if your why holds up, I'll build on it -
Home Math-as-cultural-context — this idea was born somewhere, for someone, with reasons -
Carry Cultural-transmission — the idea traveled; every place it visited, it grew -
Dozen Number bases (counting in twelves, tens, or twos — the base is a choice) -
Etch The invention of notation (writing math down so ideas can travel across time) -
Frontier Mathematics is unfinished (there are still open questions no one has answered) -
Naught The invention of zero (a symbol for nothing that changed everything) -
Warp Math in everyday craft (the geometry hidden in weaving, building, and making)