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www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/a-new-take-on-newton-making-numbers-a-game/article1662226/

Math Busking - The new street hustle
Kelvin Chan
TheGlobeAndMail.com
 
Graphic by Trish MacAlaster
 
Move over three-card monte, there’s a new hustle being played on Britain’s streets, a game in which street performers entice passersby, especially youngsters, with the chance to win £20.
 
The odds are stacked against him, but Cory, a schoolboy from south London barely into his teens, didn’t know that as he played busker Rufus Roberts for the cash on a recent morning in London’s King’s Cross neighbourhood.
 
The two must take turns removing one, two or three of the dozen clothes pins clipped to an assistant’s shirt. The one holding the bill must be removed last.
 
With four pins remaining, Cory’s friends urged him to take two, which he did. Mr. Roberts took the final two and kept the money.
 
The boy berated his friends for giving him the wrong advice, not realizing that he had just been given a mathematics lesson in number patterns by Mr. Roberts, part of a small but growing cadre of university undergrads, doctoral students, teachers and performers trained in the emerging art of math busking.
 
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Math Busking - The new street hustle

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Business and Entrepreneurship
Math

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Game or Puzzle

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Kelvin Chan
TheGlobeAndMail.com

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Adult(19+)
Youth(12-18)

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Middle School, High School, Postsecondary, Graduate, Adult General, Professional

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English

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