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The “Wheel Math Wheel Fun” iPhone app on Number Wheels. It’s a game. It’s a teaching tool. It’s a 3-D calculator that kids can make work. It is a whole new way to learn the times tables. Kids love it. Adults love it.
Below is the insight graphic from Youtube on MisterNumbers Right-Brained Math videos showing over a quarter million views. All the videos are rated 5 star, many are animated, and all focus on visual and auditory patterns to learn the times tables.
Where Mister Number videos are viewed
Only 41% of the views are in the United States, and half of the top 10 countries are not even English speaking countries. Words can confuse kids, but pictures or a video SHOW them. Note that the average age of viewers is 40, which suggests that many viewers are teachers and parents, which means each viewer may be teaching Right Brain Math to 1-200 kids. There will be several new videos on the Youtube site soon. Check it out.
Most numbers make interesting patterns on a Number Wheel focusing on the ones-digits. What happens if we ignore the tens-digits as we add 1-9 repeatedly (multiplication). If you have watched my MisterNumber videos, you know that the Twos make a beautiful pentagon, while the Eights make the same pentagon in reverse. This is because going forward 8 on the Number Wheel from 0 takes you to 8, but you can also get to 8 by going back 2. Again, starting at 8 and going around 8 spaces takes you to the number 6, but going back 2 spaces also takes you to the number 6. See the video on Number Wheels or the 2-8 video to learn more.
You may also know that the Fours create a 5 pointed star pattern and the Sixes create the same star backwards. See the 4-6 video.
The Ones, of course simply go around to make a decagon but many students are surprised that the Nines create the same design backwards.
Ones and Nines on the Number Wheel
Which brings us to the Fives.
Students are curious what shape they create on the Number Wheel. They are surprised and amused when they see that the Fives just create a YO-YO effect: a straight line that goes up and down between 5 and 0.
And the Tens just bounce on the 0 making a dot, going around the circle but only landing each time at the 0. The Tens just make a dot as they leave and then arrive again at the 0.
As Mister Numbers (Tom Biesanz), I made a 90 minute presentation last weekend (Nov 6, 2009) at California’s biggest math teachers convention (California Math Council Convention South in Palm Springs). The capacity crowd of teachers rated the material outstanding (6 on a 1-6 scale) and here are some of their comments:
“This was a “WOW!” moment for me. Excellent class- wish I learned this 20 years ago”.
“Excellent! I came looking for something to enrich my thinking. I got it!”
“Fun. Innovative”.
“I think the patterns are great, nice for students to start noticing patterns visually”
“Great concept to teach”.
“Exciting stuff – Kids need this!”
“Fascinating, it will really help my kids in understanding number relationships and times tables, inside and out.”
“Great. Very interesting. I liked all the patterns.”
“Very Practical”
“Very exciting. I want to play with the number wheel”
“EZ Times Tables are Interesting. Great Tables.”
“Good demonstration of the right brain math.”
“I loved it! I will use it this week.”
“This was amazing! I’m definitely taking it back to use. I wish it was longer!” p.s. It was a 90 minute presentation)
Mister Numbers teachings are available to you for only $17.95 on his website. That includes the book, hour DVD, and 8 extra worksheets beyond those in the book. And there are 3 more free worksheets to download from his website: MisterNumbers.com
Encyclopedia.com (winner of 2009 CODiE Best Online Reference Service) shows 4 videos under the search of “multiplication”. The video Math Times Tables for 3, 6, 9 multiplication from MisterNumbers is one of the four videos. Clicking on the video opens up a page with an article (below) and two more videos. This results in HALF (3 of 6) the videos on Encyclopedia.com feature MisterNumbers. Great for teachers and students. Here is the article from Encyclopedia.com with the embedded videos:
“Math multiplication table tricks using patterns on Tic-Tac-Toe Squares for the Threes, Sixes, and Nines. MisterNumbers math tricks will rock you as you learn multiplication for the 3 6 and 9 times tables in this video and the Sevens, Fours, and even the whole times table on other videos. This is fun for homeschool math or in a classroom. Teachers and parents will find this lesson for math times tables fun for students and for the Teacher. See other Mister-Numbers videos to see right brain ways to learn the multiplication times tables using overviews, math patterns, and visual puzzles. http://RightBrainMath.com http://RightBrainMath.com Math times table created from fun patterns as a way to learn multiplication tables for Threes, Sixes, and Nines. This video also teaches place value. This video has the student create worksheets where they can learn the times tables. This is useful for teaching math in a classroom, at home, as part of homeschool or as fun homework. Right Brain Math can teach Elementary Students. Curriculum Review magazine calls it a revolutionary approach to introducing math. It is also very effective for remedial math for students who have fallen behind in math. Learning the multiplication tables are crucial for a student taking algebra. The Right Brain approach has helped many kids who have a negative attitude about math or numbers. http://RightBrainMath.com Right Brain Math is an easy, effective, visual method of teaching multiplication as well as addition, subtraction, or division. It also helps students learn factors. Because it uses visual and auditory patterns as a teaching strategies, it appeals to many learning styles because it emphasizes patterns and puzzles and overviews. Kids see the big picture of the multiplication tables first, and then understand how the individual factors relate to each other. http://RightBrainMath.com”
Encyclopedia.com then embeds these two Mister Numbers videos on the Threes and Sevens.
See the article and videos on MisterNumbers on Encyclopedia.com Use these free videos using a right brain approach to math to learn the Threes, Sixes, Sevens, and Nines in a fun way. See other MisterNumbers videos here. Enjoy. -Mister Numbers
There was a comment about modular arithmetic and digital roots on Youtube. It brings up some fun looks at math. Modular arithmetic is a clock view of numbers. When a clock goes past 12, it goes back to 1. Right Brain Math uses this with a ten base to create the number wheel. But then the fun begins. It goes around the wheel with the Fours and Sixes, but then we can also see it go in a star pattern to create the Fours and Sixes. The Twos and Eights go in a pentagon shape in opposite directions. The Threes and Sevens make a fancy star, again in opposite directions.
Digital roots are a system of adding the digits of a number, then adding again, until only 1 digit remains (the digital root). Look at the Nines to 90 for a useful pattern: 09, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90. They all add up to 9. Tic-tac-toe squares are definitely not modular arithmetic, nor digital roots. However, look at the digital roots of the 3’s on the tic-tac-toe squares for fascinating patterns. Every number in the columns in the first square adds up 3-6-9. The second square to 6-9-3, the 3rd square to 9-6-3, and the 4th square would add up to 3-6-9 again. I might make a video about digital roots. There is an example below. The left side is the Threes on a Tic-tac-toe square from the video. The right side repeats the left (Threes), but it converts each number to digital roots. See that every set of 3 numbers adds up to 3 or 6 or 9. Notice that 66 is 6 + 6 = 12 which is further reduced to1 + 2 = 3. Try it. Numbers are fun!
I was reading Betty Edwards, who wrote “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”. Students “trick” the left brain to give up control by copying a drawing upside down. The right brain can then draw all the lines and details. There is an “AHA!” when the student turns the drawing upside right and suddenly sees, all at once, the whole picture. The same thing happens to students who play with patterns on the tic-tac-toe square, number wheel, or EZ Times Table, and suddenly see the times table revealed! They are getting the picture without having to figure it out.
Playing with number patterns creates this special way of seeing, which includes “the ability to see a whole field while at the same time perceiving parts within the field in relationship to each other as well as to the whole.” There is an ownership and attitude shift that happens when kids see the patterns in numbers and the whole structure of the times table in their own way. There is a beauty and awe that makes math friendly and the times tables easier to learn. The whole brain engages in the learning process, but the passion is re-kindled every time the student sees new patterns.
“Thank you so much!, I am 9, and i was really bad at Times tables, But i think this is going to help me understand a lot. THANK YOU!!!!!!!” -MaxLouis
The above quote is a response I got this week on my MisterNumbers video on Twos and Eights with a number wheel and pattern tables that kids can duplicate.
Yesterday I uploaded a similar new video on Youtube to show how the Fours and Sixes patterns create 5 pointed stars. I think will help many kids see the fascinating patterns in numbers and use them to learn math. Incredible and fun! See it.
Today MisterNumbers Sevens on the Magic Blackboard Video is 1 year old. It just reached 20,000 views, which is incredible for an educational video. Most are lucky to reach a couple hundred views. Total views of MisterNumbers videos is 68,000 on Youtube alone and growing by thousands every week. Google MisterNumbers to see dozens of other sites that have picked up Right Brain Math videos.
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I make a statement in one of my videos about Albert Einstein, a famous mathematican, being a “flaming right-brainer.” Yes, Einstein is known for his Physics. But it is also true that a google search for “Einstein” and “Mathematics” yields about 3,960,000 hits. Almost 4 million hits should establish Einstein as a famous mathematician (maybe not a great one). Math and Physics work together. Einstein often thought in pictures and played with equations in his mind for weeks. Continue Reading »
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An easy, visual way to learn multiplication and division by playing with patterns, and making friends with numbers.
Students are curious what shape they create on the Number Wheel. They are surprised and amused when they see that the Fives just create a YO-YO effect: a straight line that goes up and down between 5 and 0.
