“Found in my math teacher’s room — 100 squares with varying patterns and colors. No patterns seem to be the same.”
Answer: “It’s a prime factorization chart and a demonstration of The Sieve of Eratosthenes. Note that primes are of solid distinct color.”
*Makeshift
Not buying it. There are numbers on the chart with solid distinct colors that are most definitely NOT primes.
Check!
for example 2 is blue...3 is red...5 is yellow
so, for example, 15 is 1 yellow and 1 red, this is 3x4
the 16 has 4 strips of blue, this is 4x2
the 25 has 2 strips of yellow, this is 5x5
they could never be prime numbers.... there are plenty of them that aren't....
every time I write I only see that I wrote it wrong