Math Tutor Marijana

Recently I bumped into a "Math Tricks" post on Instagram, and I got really annoyed by it. I was like:  "NOO, it's Math, everything is so provable, there are no tricks there, everything is science, we should teach methods and not tricks!" But, I just stopped for a moment, and thought to myself, ok, let's make things more fun, while at the same time letting the kids know how the tricks worked. I managed to find the gold-middle for myself, to reconcile with the tricks, and use them to enhance the math problems and topics.  And that's how I got myself onto the "MATHEMAGICIAN" stuff. Yeah! And what I would like to share with you here, is another trick (Besides my first vlog "Guess the Number")  You will need a partner, and preferable your partner should be equipped with a calculator, not underestimating no-one, but here we have some 8-digit number division 😀 First step, take a piece of paper, write down the number 73, and give it to your ...

  Hello my dear parents, students and colleagues 😊 maybe someone else to ?  😃 Hi to you too! In this vlog I will present you my reviews on some math books. Feel free to check them and let me know have you had a chance to read them. The must-read-my-favorite-ever 😊 is "Mathematics Education Across Time & Place Over Two Millennia From Athens to Zimbabwe" by Thomas O'Shea, 2016. Next are two just marvelous books. Both of them are source of plentiful of mathematics' hidden gems. The first one (the red one) is  Mathematics From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity  Anne Rooney, 2017, and the second one is " The Mathematics of Everyday Life", by  Alfred S.  Posamentier,  2018. The next books I will just list, and leave a star-review.  I have laid out the meaning of the stars-number. 1- Still didn't get to a book that I would marked as 1 2-waste of time, even some misinformation 3-good reading, not so useful 4-useful reading, I'm ...

Guess the secret number like a Magician , or even better like Mathematician ! So, what are the rules of this game?  In order to play this game you will need a partner, someone from your family or a friend. You can ask them to think of a number, their secret number, which will be your goal to guess.  After that, ask them to: Subtract 11 Add  2 Aaaand, then they should tell you the result the have got.  So, let's say they have got 5. What should you do to find out the mysterious number? Credit: http://clipart-library.com/magic-hat.html The "secret recipe" is to Work backward to find the original number: 😉 We should start with the 5, then apply every opposite operation of the stated one. So, opposite of addition is subtraction, hence, we should do  5 -2, which equals 3,  then taking that (5-2) and instead of subtraction, again applying the opposite operation, we are going to do addition, we will get (5-2)+11=14,  and voilà, the number that you need ...