Thursday 19 February 2015

Cool Math Tricks To Incorporate In Kids’ Activities


Math tricks are cool ways to inspire even the most math resistant kids. Here are some number games you can let your children and other kids incorporate in their activities.

1. Let the children multiply 37,037 by any single number from 1 to 9, then multiply the product by 3. They will be able to come up with an answer where every digit will be the same as that of the first single number.

2. The 5 dice trick

Teach this trick to your kids to impress friends while building their basic math skills.

You will need 5 dice. In performing the trick, you tell the watchers that you can see through the dice all the way to the bottom numbers then roll all the 5 dice on the table.  As you pretend to be looking through the dice to see the numbers, you will actually be adding up the top numbers of all the 5 dice.  After getting the sum of the top numbers, you will announce the sum of the bottom numbers.

You’ll be able to get the sum of the bottom numbers by subtracting the sum of the top numbers from 35. Let one of the spectators turn over the 5 dice and have him add up the numbers.

How it works:

The sum of the top number and the bottom number on any die is 7. For instance, if you toss a die and the top number is a 3, the number at the bottom will be 4, so 3 + 4 = 7.

Therefore, if you roll out 5 dice, the total of all the top and bottom numbers will be 35, which you get by multiplying 5 by 7.

Trivia Info Resource: mathnasium.ae

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