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A MATHCOUNTS buzzer moment becomes a difference-of-squares lesson in the channel's only new upload.
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Here's how to solve this tricky star symbol problem #math #maths #mathcounts #algebra
Shaheem S. buzzes before the announcer has finished reading. The answer is correct, but Your Math Bestie's new Short pauses the competition footage to make the speed less mysterious: that unfamiliar star symbol is simply a defined operation, and the expression underneath it has a useful shortcut.
In "Here's how to solve this tricky star symbol problem #math #maths #mathcounts #algebra", Shaheem faces Sophia C. in a MATHCOUNTS countdown round. The host shows how to factor the difference of two squares rather than calculate both squares separately. Subtract the two inputs, multiply that by their sum, take the square root and add seven. The intimidating-looking question becomes manageable arithmetic.
The Short has passed 21,000 views. One viewer adds another mental-math route through the powers of three hidden in the calculation, extending the lesson rather than merely applauding the buzzer speed.
The channel's strongest daily momentum belongs to an earlier competition explainer, "Do you think he solved it this way? #mathematics #mathcounts #middleschool #math". Posted in late October, it is drawing substantially more daily views than the new star-symbol lesson.
Subscribers were unchanged over the week, while daily views are running at about a third of their usual level. Among nearby education channels, English with Steve Ford had a particularly busy week; Your Math Bestie's weekly audience sat between those of The Shogunate and Sunn m'Cheaux. Here, the distinctive attraction remains the pause after the buzzer: a chance to unpack what looked impossibly quick.
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Very fast! He might also have known that 243 is 3^5. So, he's taking the square root of 3^6, which is 3^3 or 27.
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Which step comes last in the star operation explained in the new Short?
The operation adds seven after taking the square root of the difference of the two squares.