All I'll say is that you are right about the first two, but the wrong branch of math for the last, and that when taken laterally the answer to that is a pretty big clue as to the nature of the mysterious pantheon.
It is a deep-dive kinda geek idea I'm rather proud of, though you people will probably hate my guts after the reveal.
That or decide I'm an uber-nerd, despite me actually hating mathematicians with a deep abiding passion (maths is the purest of the pure as the sciences can go, those who engage in it professionally are the scum of the earth and mar it with their dirty, disgusting everything...)
Is this that least common multiple thing? That wasn't part of the curriculum when I was in grade school.
My sister asked me to help my niece with her math homework once when visiting, since the common core math was really doing a number on her ability to help Abby with her homework.
It was really confusing at first, because I didn't have access to any math book or anything explaining it, and just had to figure it out from the problems. But once I figured it out it was really interesting, and I remember getting a little excited about it. (I am the math nerd in our family - even if my mother and my other sister are the actual math majors).
That sort of solidified my take on common core math. It's trying to teach kids to think the way math nerds do. It was basically trying to get them to think of the little tricks that I sort of taught myself back during grade school (since I hated math homework - I like the math, I just hated how boring the drills where). The problem is that most kids are not math nerds, and really just need some direct instruction instead of trying to guide them into figuring it out themselves. And most parents are not math nerds either, so they are not able to help their kids learn. And most grade school teachers are not math nerds either, so they can't really help much other than regurgitate whatever they picked up from the training workshop.
It's a laudable goal, and I think my kids would benefit a huge amount (because I could actually help them), but for most people it's like trying to build a spaceship when all the builders are carpenters. There just isn't the infrastructure of teachers and parents to support it properly.
Of course, since I never got to actually go through the curriculum I don't actually know a lot about it. We studied something similar, but it was the least common denominator that we focused on.
) so my general writing speed just might pick up...