Multiplication

One to one hundred: a series of posters from Mark Gonyea

Mark Gonyea 100 patterns

Mark Gonyea is an artist and graphic designer who recently crowd-funded an inventive and elegant series of 100-charts. The artwork caught my eye because the patterns were both adventurous and algebraic. Want to borrow my math goggles? Go on a scavenger hunt within the posters to find these mathematical structures: Arrays Star sheafs and star […]

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Multiplication Towers

Multiplication Towers

One of the wonders of the ancient times is that many tribes and nations from different continents independently discovered and built patterns we call Labyrinths. Some math ideas are universal like that! Over the last decades, the Multiplication Tower idea has been appearing in many different projects. We interviewed authors from the 1970s to early 2000s, and […]

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Multiplication Q&A live meetings, our Pinterest boards, math mind hacks: Newsletter December 30

Natural Math Pinterest Board

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 […]

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Math mind hacks: spaced repetition

Spaced repetition

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 […]

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