## The Mathematics Word Problem Solving Series

I have received quite a number of requests from students to write about the Mathematics Word Problem Solving.  Some students even reminded me that I have mentioned about it in this blog. Well, I think I have to fulfill my promise, so starting this week, I am going to give examples on how to solve the following types of problems.

I hope that this series will “lighten” this blog since the posts in the past months were getting harder and harder for high school students.

## Guest Post: An Interesting Property of Prime Numbers

Although I have already discussed modulo division, I believe that this proof is beyond the reach of average high school students. To explain further, I made additional notes on Patrick’s proof . I hope these explanations would be able to help students who want to delve on the proof.

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I’ve got a prime number trick for you today.

1. Choose any prime number $p > 3$.
2. Square it.
4. Divide by 8.

Having no idea which prime number you chose, I can tell you this: