Why Do Numbers Seem to Have Secret Lives?

Numbers can act like characters in a story. Imagine numbers are people, some of them hide behind masks, and when you take away parts of them, their secrets come out. Like if you have the number 6, it might be hiding inside another number, like 12 or 30, waiting for someone to find it.

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Examples

If you have 12 cookies and give away 6, you're using the secret life of 6.
The number 30 has 6 inside it, like when you split 30 into 5 groups of 6.
You can find hidden 6s in numbers like 18 or 42.

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