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Issue 1: Math and Cats

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Issue 2: Math and Time

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Issue 3: Math and Desserts

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Issue 4: Negative times Negative

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Issue 5: Math and Mirrors

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Issue 6: Math and Books

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Issue 7: Math and Water

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Issue 8: Math and Rooms

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Issue 9: My Favorite Puzzle

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Issue 10: Math and Folding Sheets

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Issue 11: Do Straight Lines Exist

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Issue 12: Twelvety

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Issue 13: Alien Math

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Issue 14: Circles

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Issue 15: Percentages

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Issue 16: The Sides of a Circle

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Issue 17: Math and Mazes

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Issue 18: What Comes Next?

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Issue 19: On Pi

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Issue 20: Math and Outerspace

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Issue 21: The Square Root of Two

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Issue 22: Proportional Reasoning

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Issue 23: Weird Subtraction

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Issue 24: Show your Work. Why?

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Issue 25: Squares as Rectangles?

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Issue 26: Is 1 prime?

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Issue 27: What is Infinity?

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Issue 28: What is Average?

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Issue 29: Counting Squares

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Issue 30: More on Pi

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Issue 31: Adding Two Odd Primes

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Issue 32: Dividing by Zero

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Issue 33: Even and Odd Numbers (More!)

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Issue 34: Red Blood Cells

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Issue 35: Mathematical Schemes

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James likes deep-thinking, "I wonder" questions and your students surely have many of those: "Why can't you divide by zero and what could go wrong if you do?" and "Why are there 360 degrees in a circle? Where did that number come from?" and "Would Martians do math the same way we do?" for example. These are all questions he would take on! (Not textbook questions and computation questions.)

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