Thursday, December 8, 2011

That simple?!

Hello!

Hello boys and girls, I just had a mathematical epiphany...Seriously!  Why didn’t we go this way when I was a kid learning the multiplication table?!  I mean, click on the link below and you will see how the Egyptians and Chinese did this a Gazillion years ago and it wasn’t multiplying numbers but adding them.  In fact, according to this guy who is now my favorite mathematician in the world, computers use this technology now! Well...here here, go look at the link now and comeback and tell me that your brain wasn’t amazed by such simple computing…


You see what I mean?!  Freaking simple!  I’d like to take this moment and apologize to my daughters to whom I yelled my freaking lungs off; and to all math teachers out there: Did you guys know about this?!

So baffle was I that I decided to create an excel document that does exactly what the Egyptian and Chinese did back when then....when we were smart.  I know, what good was my excel spreadsheet for?  Well, I got lots of time…  So I’m planning to reteach my kids mathematics…

Just thought you wanted to know about what the man has been hiding from us…

Sayonara!

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