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Multiplication Patterns in the Hundreds Table

Multiplication is accomplished by “skip counting” or, as we say, counting by two or three, etc.  In this hundreds chart, which is ordered like the Cartesian coordinate system, left to right, BOTTOM to TOP, you can observe the patterns produced by “skip counting” for the numbers 1 through 10. Click the X•Y Chart below to […]

2018 The intersection of math and the humanities.

It’s about time, but the insight arrived. The visual integration of feelings and math can be achieved by displaying a How Are You Feeling Today? poster next to an X•Y Chart on the classroom or bedroom wall. The unspoken message is that critical thinking and feeling complement one another, in fact, neither proceeds well without […]

Multiplication and Calculus

Through the placement of the single digit multiplication facts within the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system connections between arithmetic and calculus become visible. Consider the similarities between the product as the area of a 5 by 6 rectangle and the area under the curve of the constant function, f(x) = 6, over the […]