My Story - Learning new math tricks so that I can pass them on to my students
Many “students” look forward to the end of their math class to watch and learn new math tricks from me. I can’t let them down, and I won’t, because this is an ideal way to get them interested in math.
For the last couple of weeks, I have been reading and studying math tricks and speed calculation in bed for at least an hour and a half before I sleep.
To my great delight, I am just like Christopher Columbus when he discovered the new world, or Archimedes who figured out the volume of water displaced in a container was the same as the volume of an object submerged in it.
Oh yes, I realise now that many math tricks and speed calculation are based on application of algebra, approximation and rearrangement of numbers in the operation.
What so big deal about such “discoveries”? Knowing how these are derived, I can create my own tricks to intrigue and excite my ”students” further, and develop new methods to help them to break down some “mental blockage”.
Thank you for reading.
For the last couple of weeks, I have been reading and studying math tricks and speed calculation in bed for at least an hour and a half before I sleep.
To my great delight, I am just like Christopher Columbus when he discovered the new world, or Archimedes who figured out the volume of water displaced in a container was the same as the volume of an object submerged in it.
Oh yes, I realise now that many math tricks and speed calculation are based on application of algebra, approximation and rearrangement of numbers in the operation.
What so big deal about such “discoveries”? Knowing how these are derived, I can create my own tricks to intrigue and excite my ”students” further, and develop new methods to help them to break down some “mental blockage”.
Thank you for reading.
