Math Teacher Goes Psycho …. Psychic!
Requirements: Pack of cards and a little practise.
Watch this video to learn the trick. Then try it out on the class.
Beginner Math Prediction Card Trick
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Trick 8: Spooky Maths Magic
May 4, 2018
Spooky Maths Magic
Requirements; Smart board/data projector.
This is mental maths, but not hard maths. You can play this video by Marco Frezza directly to the class.
It may not work on everybody, but it would be very interesting to see how many students are fooled by this spooky magic man.
Trick 9: Coin Trick. How to throw 10 HEADS in a row!!!!
April 30, 2018
Requirements: A coin for each student & smart board or data projector.
First ask your students to toss a coin 10 times each.
Ask each student how many heads in a row they threw.
Now ask students ‘Do you think it is possible to throw 10 heads in a row?
It can be done. Here is how you do it.
Derren Brown is a UK mentalist, magician, hypnotist and maths guru. He’s awesome. He shows audiences how a lack of understanding maths, especially probability, leads to misinterpreting the facts.
Now play this video to the students:
Trick 10: A Foolproof Gambling System
April 23, 2018
Math Mentalist Devises Foolproof Gambling System
Requirements: Smart board/Data Projector
or Chalk & Talk
This is the most awesome way to introduce probability.
Mentalist Derren Brown devises a foolproof gambling system. He sends a girl , Kadisha, the number of a winning horse in race to be run the next day. It wins. He sends her the winning horse and race number 4 more times. She ends up with winnings close to £ 1000 before the final race. Derren convinces her to borrow money for the last bet. She does. She places £4,000 on a horse. Did it win?????
Watch Part 5 of The System
If you are not convinced Derren Brown can come up with a foolproof system for horse race tipping, let me explain The System. He took 7,776 e-mail addresses, divided them into 6 equal groups and sent each group a different number for a horse in a 6 horse race to be run the next day. Naturally, one group of 1296 had been given the winning horse number. This group was divided into 6 again and given the number of the ‘winning’ in a six horse race the next day and so on.
Race 1: 7776
Race 2: 1296
Race 3: 216
Race 4: 36
Race 5: 6
Out of 7776 punters, only one punter was given in advance five horse race winners in a row. Was it Kadisha. You will have to watch the Youtube above.
You can watch THE SYSTEM in full here. It takes 47 mins.
Math found in Strange Places
April 19, 2018Mathspig was walking down a street in her home town, Melbourne, when she came across this Street Art piece on a wall of an auto-repair shop in Lygon St, Brunswick.
She nearly did a backflip with mathematical joy.
Fibonacci Rules!!!!!!!
Amazing Maths Clock
March 17, 2018
Albert Digital Mathematical clocks are fascinating.
You calculate the time using +, -, x and ÷ . Such fun and ideal for the math classroom.
Mathspig found the Albert Mathematical clock at the Horsham International Hotel (below).
More info on the Albert Digital Clock here.
You can set the level of difficulty. You get 1 minute to work out the answer and that’s long enough.
1. Maths is BORING!
December 9, 2017
Middle School Maths that is AMAZING
psst! That means it’s not boooorrrrinng!
NEW POSTS!
1a. The WORLD POPULATION as ONE BIG CROWD … METRIC
1b. The WORLD POPULATION as ONE BIG CROWD … USA Units
2a. If all the cars in the world were parked together what area would they cover? Metric Units
2b. If all the cars in the world were parked together what area would they cover? USA UNITS
3. If you put the population of the world into AUSTRALIA what area in m2 would we get each?
Meanwhile this Mathspig blog is full of AMAZING middle school maths such as:
HOW MUCH BLOOD CAN YOU LOSE AND SURVIVE?
WHAT VOL OF ALCOHOL IS LETHAL FOR TEENS?
THE TERRIFYING MATH OF RUNNING FROM A BEAR USA UNITS
THE TERRIFYING MATHS OF RUNNING FROM A BEAR METRIC UNITS
