"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple."              Stanley Gudder,  John Evans Professor of Mathematics, University of Denver 

 
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"...brain food..."

“As you could see, we have a very lively bunch here, and they need to be challenged.  Your presentation will provide them with much needed “brain food” for a long time to come!  We look forward to seeing you again!”

Lucy Agresta

 Kennesaw Charter Kennesaw, GA

 

 

So, what’s a Math-a-Magic

 

program like?

 

Finally, an assembly program for 6th -12th graders that addresses their academic needs! This interactive program teaches your students statistics (ratios, probability, dependent events), exponents and factorials, and the concept of Pi and how to recall the value of Pi to seven digits.

And everything is taught in a fun, engaging, and stimulating way that guarantees your students will not only pay attention, but will retain the information taught. This is not a program only for the gifted students! In fact, those who have a hard time with math will get the most from this program.

As far as the students are concerned, they see an  entertaining, 50-60 minute program which features magic, tons of audience participation, interesting visuals and lots of laughs. 

Without looking, one student correctly chooses the only red card out of six.  The others cards are not red. 

Three other students team up to accurately guess  the one card that is reversed in a deck. 

Another student does a demonstration that has less than a 1 in 270,000 chance of success! 

But the real climax is when an effect is performed that should only succeed one time out of every  3.6 X 1083 attempts.

All along the way they are introduced in a memorable way to probability, statistics, and a variety of ways to express ratios.

From an educator’s perspective, the program teaches multiplying fractions and converting fractions into decimals, the basics of statistics such as ratios and calculating the probability of dependent events, and an introduction to exponents and factorials.

Every student will learn how to recall the value of pi to seven decimal places and how to recall the reciprocal of pi.

All of this information is presented in a memorable, fun and educationally significant manner by a presenter who knows how to entertain an audience and actually understands the math behind the magic!

Did You Know....
Numbers can be

- Rational or Irrational

- Real and Complex

- Imaginary and

- Surreal. 

They can even be Square!

Just like the students in your classes!

 

Hmmm...

National Pi Day is March 14, and begins officially at 1:59:26 AM.  (3/14 1:59:26)

 

Math Symbol

The symbol n!, called factorial n, was introduced in 1808 by Christian Kramp of Strassbourg, Germany, who chose it so as to circumvent printing difficulties incurred by the previously used symbol.

From a compilation by Douglas Weaver
Mathematics Coordinator, Taperoo High School, Taperoo, South Australia

 

 

         

 

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