Most people know a few "rules for divisibility". Things like, "If a number ends in a five or a zero, it is divisible by 5." But why is that rule true? Why can we focus only on the right-most digit, and ignore all the others?
Some other rules are even more challenging and interesting. So we turned this question into an I Love Math problem for week 3. Here it is:
This last challenge is the most interesting. It requires the most deep thinking about place value. It forces children (and all of us) to consider "why" a rule works, and contemplate the structure of our number system.