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Thanks for the feedback! Agree analogies are context (and time) sensitive. As soon as you make a reference the clock starts ticking about how long it would rema
by kalid 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Agree analogies are context (and time) sensitive. As soon as you make a reference the clock starts ticking about how long it would remain relevant.
For this specific example, I was writing to a high-school version of myself who wanted to really get an intuition for primes. What can we deduce from a prime factorization, are there other ways to think about it? (Number theory is studied later, even though numbers are introduced early.)
For a younger child, I'd probably use Lego or Minecraft to show how numbers can have "building blocks". And if you didn't use any Redstone as a building block, there won't be any Redstone in the result. (I.e., a number which never had the "2" building block added, will never be even.)
Thanks for the comment!