• Is this something that you might want to introduce to your secondary math students? Why or why not? If you would use these ideas in your math class, how might you do so?
It might be difficult to introduce these ideas in a math class because the concept of personalities being associated with numbers would seem a little too trivial for the more complex concepts in a high school math class. One way that I could imagine this being brought up would be if the teacher were doing a demonstration of solving in class and they come across a single number as an answer, then they could briefly segue into a fun fact about the particular number (about how the Mayans had a particular personality associated with this number). Or if a teacher was asking a student to give a random number for an example, and the teacher knows the number personality off the top of their head, then they could briefly talk about that before going on with the solution.
• Do numbers have particular personalities for you? Why, how, or why not? What about letters of the alphabet, days of the week, months of the year, etc.?
The number 30 has a celebratory personality to me because my mother, father and I all have birthdays on the 30th of different months.
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