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Okay what do I like about math? I don't know. I like numbers and if you like money you

got to love math. That's just a natural thing. I love money so. Math is just something

that I've been fascinated with since second grade and it's always just felt really good.

It works in a graph and you can apply it to nature and you can apply it to physics and

you can apply it to chemistry. I find myself thinking in graphs almost like when you

throw a ball you can imagine the height of it in a graph or when you're driving in

the car you can imagine your speed in a graph. Everything you do can be represented in

a number. Numbers don't lie so I trust them easily. And I think it's less about knowing

the exact equations and numbers than it is just like knowing how to think mathematically

and thinking like a logical like problem-solving kind of way so then you can apply that to other

aspects of your life. Those were competitors at a recent math tournament at Roosevelt High

School in Minneapolis. We'll hear more from them in a little bit. But first let's count it down.

Hi, you're listening to Brains on. I'm Molly Bloom and I have two co-hosts here with me today,

Isha and Joe. They're 11 years old and they're on their school's math team and if you

haven't guessed today is all about the numbers. So do you guys have a favorite number? Isha,

what's yours? Mine is probably two or 20. It does born the year 2002 and I graduate in the year

2020. Do you like anything about the way those numbers act in math? Probably because they're like

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