Math goggles help you notice math everywhere. Maria João Lagarto has great math goggles when she makes adventurous Pinterest collections. For this post, I selected examples of round fruits, confections, and other morsels packed into triangles, pyramids, or cones. Even the Wikipedia article on sphere packing uses a pyramid of oranges! I used to play with a […]
Subscribe to the Moebius Noodles newsletter Happy holidays! Welcome to adventurous math for the playground crowd. I am Moby Snoodles, and I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com Multiplication: From Worries To Dreams From our Multiplication Planet pilot in 2008 to the WOW! Multiplication mini-course in September 2013, multiplication is a hot topic. We […]
Math Goggles help you notice math everywhere. What if we had a planet for our moon? What if we had tiny hands at our fingertips? Photo sources: the skies; the hands; eye/mouth; the duck. Asking “What if?..” about everything is one of the main ways people create mathematics. What if you kept counting backwards past […]
You can memorize ten or even hundred times faster (compared to cramming) if you review learned material at spaced intervals. The spaced repetition method is most appropriate for small, particular facts you need to recall quickly, such as terms, or frequently used formulas. Never try to memorize what you don’t understand in mathematics. For bodies […]
