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Kind Santos was a student at the University of Waterloo when she began her math

career and her drag career. And I was like Hannah Montana at the time living a

double life, you know doing my math equations by day and doing the

splits and some gay bar by night. If you watched the first season of Canada's

drag race, you know Kine. Or maybe you're one of her 1.5 million followers on Tik-talk where she makes

educational videos about math, science, history, and drag.

0.9 repeating equals 1. Let's see a quick proof. Let X equal 0.9 repeating.

Kaina has always had a knack for math. Her dad was an engineer and teachers were always

telling her to enroll in math contests to challenge her skills.

You know in math class the questions you're given on a test are ones that your teacher prepared you for.

But these math contests would have questions that were a little bit more about problem solving.

And later in life, she started doing those math videos on Tik-Tock while dressed in drag.

I just thought it was camped, to be honest.

And then I got so many messages from people saying that they loved learning math through this fun new lens. I think that's when I realized that math

is a drag queen. You know it's it's fabulous it's mysterious can be

controversial and there's there's a hidden universe underneath the surface and in

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