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Math for seven-year-olds: graph coloring, chromatic numbers, and Eulerian paths and circuits | Joel David Hamkins - http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-fo...
“As a guest today in my daughter’s second-grade classroom, full of math-enthusiastic seven-and-eight-year-old girls, I led a mathematical investigation of graph coloring, chromatic numbers, map coloring and Eulerian paths and circuits. I brought in a pile of sample graphs I had prepared, and all the girls made up their own graphs and maps to challenge each other. By the end each child had compiled a mathematical “coloring book” containing the results of their explorations. Let me tell you a little about what we did.” - × × ×