Blog post 3

1. The King's Chessboard is a story by David Birch. This story is about how the king of India insists that a man be rewarded for his service to the king. The man does not wish to receive a reward and that just doing work for the king was rewarding enough. The king does not except this answer and the man says that starting the next day he will receive a grain of rice for the first square on the king's chess board. The next day for the second square he will receive 2 grains of rice after that 4 grains then 8 and so on. For each square, the man wishes to have twice the number of grains for the square before it. The wise man begins to receive bags on bags of rice and eventually the king runs out of rice and cannot supply the necessary amount. They decide to end the rice agreement and the wise man continues to serve the king.

2. This book describes the principles of exponential growth. It discusses that the king and the man arrange for there to be 2 times the amount of rice (x^2) for the previous day.

3. I believe literature is an accurate way to teach math because it shows a fun and descriptive way to engage kids of all ages in the education of a specific topic in math. Mathematical topics typically can be very complicated and the pictures and vivid stories are a great way to keep people interested and get a concept across