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February 03, 2007

Making Math More Time Consuming

This new multiplication method is both fascinating and worthless.

Posted by Zach Wendling at February 3, 2007 02:54 PM

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My calculator is obsolete now!

Posted by: Pack at February 3, 2007 03:39 PM | permalink

That whole demonstration hurt my brain; it's kind of like drawing pictures of apples and then erasing them to figure out basic subtraction.

Posted by: Josh Miller at February 3, 2007 03:49 PM | permalink

Speaking of making math slower, if you have half an hour, you may want to check out this YouTube video and the responses to it (especially the 2-part response by "jamesblackb"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI

It's an interesting discussion on how best to teach math to students.

Posted by: Eric Seymour at February 5, 2007 01:36 PM | permalink

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