Mental Math Tricks to Impress Your Friends. One thing that fascinates me is performing mental math. Being able to quickly perform additions, subtraction, multiplications etc is a good way to impress your friends. The problem is, I’m not a math genius, and I don’t know much behind simple arithmetic. If you’re anything like me, but you’d still like to learn some basic math tricks, I hope you’ll find this list useful. Simple tricks How to multiply any two digits number by 11 Let’s say that you want to find the product of 36 and 11.
One way to find it would be to multiply 36 by 10 and then add 36 on the result. Example: What happens if the sum of the two numbers is bigger than 9? Square any two digits number that ends with 5 Calculating the square of a number below 100 is extremely simple. Multiply any two digits numbers with the same first digit and the second digit that sums up to 10 Let’s say that you want to multiply 42 and 48 together. Note that if the product of the second digits is below ten, you have to add a 0 in front of it. ie. Khan Academy. Free Maths Video Lecture courses. Introduction to Algorithms - Download free content from MIT. Portal:Mathematics. Vi Hart: Blog.
Teaching Math Strategies | Math is Not A Four Letter Word. 6 Ways Learning Math Is Like Being in a Casino. I’m in Las Vegas for the DevLearn conference this week. Since I’m always thinking math teaching and now I’m seeing casinos, I’m noticing some comparisons between the two. Here they are: You don’t know if you’ll be successful when you sit down at the table. We think math is something kids can just learn if they sit down and focus.
But learning math is as squirrely and unpredictable as the gambling table. Sometimes it’s exciting and sometimes it’s stressful. When a kid’s totally getting it, it’s very exciting. Everyone has a preference. Just like some people prefer slots over blackjack, kids will tend toward liking one type of math over the other. It’s not about who you think it’s about. When you’re in a casino, you think it’s about you. When a kid’s doing math, it should be all about them. Often it’s about the bureaucracy, politics and laws surrounding education. Once a child is asked to follow the book, or keep to a schedule that isn’t their own, it’s no longer about them. Your thoughts? Learning to love math. Recently I wrote about how we have been struggling with Kyri’s attitude.
Often when we would start working on our math work for the day, she would immediately get huffy, turn around in her chair and just completely shut down. I know she is a bright girl, and so it would pain me to hear her say she hated math, because I know she GETS it, her frustration just gets in the way. I have been working to really listen to her, to try and figure out what she needs, rather than just respond to the behavior. Some days this is easier said than done, but overall we have made significant process. To get her out of this rough patch, I have had to make some changes in our homeschool routine. First, I had to back off a bit and relax myself.
Second, I changed our approach completely, at least for a short while. How to Enjoy Learning Math « LearningNerd. How to learn to love maths | Science. Britain is about to fall in love with maths. Well, that's the dream. Yesterday one of the government's top advisers on further education said that maths should be compulsory for all students until 18 or 19 – no matter what else they are studying.
Professor Steve Sparks, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, also said that he wants a new maths qualification between GCSE and AS-level to be introduced by 2016. Maths is justified in this country because it is useful. I agree. Most other developed nations have non-specialist maths courses beyond GCSE and Sparks said that we need to follow suit in order to compete on the global market. In all countries, however, the need to pass exams and the emphasis on number-crunching often makes us forget how fascinating maths can be.
If we're all going to be doing a lot more maths in the future – we might as well enjoy it. 2) Maths didn't begin with circles, however. 4) Before you answer, flick through this newspaper. Learning to Love Math. Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math. Lecture notes in game theory -- Game Theory .net university course notes. How to Learn Math Through Magic.