PatternPlayMath.com What is it? Mister Numbers Pattern Play MATH is looking at cool patterns that are built into numbers. Free worksheets on the website. Right Brain Math also looks at overview pictures, and has kids create math from fun patterns. It shows how families of numbers like the Twos and Eights relate. Kids get excited as they create the whole times table. These videos show you how to see the patterns and overviews. The Right Brain Math book teaches you step by step how to create the whole times table in creative unique ways that are foundations for learning. MisterNumbers DVD walks you through all the worksheets in the book and can teach this revolutionary approach in a fun way. RightBrainMath.com
I am looking for something to help my son now just starting arithmetic for the first time. I did pure maths at university, but I am a theoretical guy who was never that good at mental arithmetic, and i always felt a bit insecure about my lack of ability in it compared to other maths guys. I found the video hard to follow at the beginning, partly it seems to be talking to kids, but we are adults who want to teach our kids (e.g. the JCB photo), partly it moved too fast. Skipping forward to the parallel lines it started to make sense to me - e.g. two guys swapping pennies - so from 9+0=10 we get 8+1=9 then 7+2=9 etc creating the nice pattern. But I am still a bit lost as to the goal- e.g. is the point creating a game to make addition fun, or more seriously they need to remember the combinations that add to various numbers, or they should start mentally picturing the wheel? It seems to me we do arithmetic but getting some remembered anchor points, then juggling around them. E.g. if i remember 8+2=10 instantly, then i can figure out 8+3=11 fast. But then we need to know our drilled in points. So, for example, how about 7+8 =15? I grew up doing that as 7+7+1, because the multiplication table was drilled into me, but with your wheel should they have 15 instantly or decompose 7+8 = (2+3) + (5+5) = 5 + 10? I found the wheels on facebook to print. Myself, I would rather learn complex things by reading articles than watching videos, but I get the video pull. If you teach mental arithmetic you will do the world and my kids a great favour and be highly honoured. My experience watching my son is that the teaching methods he is subjected to are totally awful because they do not find the world expert and get him to help, instead the clueless primary school women make it up themselves.
Hi over there ! I'm a primary teacher, and I have a blind child of 9 years old in my classroom this year. I'm so willing to find kinestesic support for him to feel maths more deeply and have fun. I will email you. I wanna try this clever thing ; thanks a lot for sharing this idea.
Greetings sir Biesanz! Thank you for this! I've always struggled with Math, it seemed like such a boring chore, especially with memorizing the multiplication table. Your visual pattern based method makes all of math so much more interesting and fun! Now, I understand why math fascinates so many people! Thank you! Best Wishes, Joma from the Philippines 🇵🇭
My late blind father would have turned 72 today. He founded CFBT, a charity with many schools for the blind in Thailand. I was looking up materials to teach the students mathematics and geometry and came across your channel. Thank you for posting your idea. I will 3D print it and try with some students here. Please also check out my innovation for the blind, search "ReadRing". It is the last project I started with my dad.
Your innovation sounds really cool. I hope you will have many helpers then that your machine will be displayed around the world. You are making a great job with this clever idea !
Ones-Digits are BLUE: pattern is 1-4-9-6-5 up or down from each 0, Draw a LINE after NINE, tens will go up there. Tens-Digits are RED: Pattern goes up at each line, up by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, etc.It is magic AND it works, watch it again and let me know where you got lost.
I am completely in love with this whole process. I am hoping that my 9 year old will be as excited as I am. Thank you so much for doing this. I wish this would have been around when I was young.
My suggestion for learning comparison: Make the wheel with him. Let him experience that numbers get bigger as he goes around the wheel from any number and smaller as he moves back toward 1.
Hi Tom. I wish you were my math teacher growing up. Im 36 and struggled with math my whole life. Although I did way better in college, I still struggled and learned the "old way" and worked harder to learn advanced concepts because i NEVER had a solid foundation of the basics (add, sub, multi, divide). You're a real blessing to me and everyone (young and old) who struggles with math. THANK YOU for making math fun to me!!! By the way, your number circle looks very similar to what is taught in the Waldorf philosophy... is that just a coincidence?
