http://eztimestable.com/numbers A Right Brain approach to Math using Patterns, Rhythms, and an Overview Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:47:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_203" align="alignleft" width="114" caption="Wheel Math app for iPhone"][/caption] Coming soon (around Sept 1):Free for the first 3 days. Check back to find free days. 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 ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=202 Summer is a great time for Elementary Teachers or Concerned Parents to learn a new Right Brain approach to teaching Math. Be sure to check out MisterNumbers videos and sign up to get his free worksheets below using Tic-Tac-Toe Squares and Number Circles. You can get his EZ Times Table ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=191 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.  [caption id="attachment_189" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Where Mister Number videos are viewed"][/caption] Only ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=186 A Right-brained look at numbers is fun. 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 ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=174 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 ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=169 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 ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=164 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 ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=154 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 ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=152 “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 ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=122 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 ... http://eztimestable.com/numbers/?p=119