I’ve been wanting to do this for so long, and I’m sure many readers have wanted it too – I’m making videos that will help anyone learn to be fast and confident (not to mention amazing) at the basic operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The first series of lessons will be free, as I learn the software and make them more professional. After that, I’ll offer them as a course for a monthly subscription fee that will be astoundingly cheap. It will come with podcasts, webcasts, tele-seminars, tons of downloadable worksheets, progress reports, daily journals, a forum and total e-mail support.
By the end of the course, anybody who puts a bit of effort into it will be able to freak out any teacher, job-interviewer, college entrance examiner, or basically anyone with their calculating abilities.
And I guarantee that you won’t have a second of confusion with any of the methods if you follow them from the beginning. All of the addition and subtraction lessons will be abled to be mastered by just about any second-grader, and many first-graders (or even younger).
The video you are about to watch is not even the beginning. I’ll be pointing you to even easier lessons for toddlers. But this video is a good place to get a feeling for what things are going to be like.
Remember, this is just the first draft, as I learn the new software (Wacom Graphics Tablet, iShowU video screencapture, iMovie 8, etc.) Thank God it’s on a Mac, so the learning curve will not be too steep!
Before I clean up the drafts, I’ll make sure I put up a video every few days, so in a short time you’ll be able to long rows of many column in your head, faster than someone else with paper and pencil, and more accurately.
OK, go have fun with the video. It’s about 12 minutes long. The ones in the future will be shorter.
And please – leave a comment. If I don’t hear from anyone, I’ll think nobody wants to learn this stuff, and I’ll have to turn my attention elsewhere. But it would be a shame not to offer this to people, because it’s so easy and fun, and it will give you a huge advantage over anyone who can’t do it.
A great video, thanks! I’ve recently bought your Math Mojo booklets and gone through all your website pages so I can get right back to basics: my mental maths was very poor (although after just a week I am seeing a vast improvement, thanks to your methods). Your booklets and exercises have given me a completely new outlook on numbers – if only we were taught this as kids!
Just to encourage you, I think the video is a great way for people to learn your techniques, as you demonstrated here we can immediately visualise what you have to explain with many paragraphs!
Thanks for the good work, and I look forward to seeing more from you soon.
This is a great idea! Both my kids can use this. We are an “afterschooling” family, and can use all the resources we can get. We’d like to start teaching our kids mental math, because we think it’s good for their minds, but we didn’t know where to start.
Thanks for this!
Mickey
Love your post!! Finally someone got it right!!! Would you mind if I put a blogroll link back to your post? :)
while i was in 6th grade, i hated learning math. i easily forget the equations, but now, i feel like i am faster than a calculator! thanks for this wonderful website!
Thanks so much for this video! My daughter just started second grade and is having a hard time with math. I can’t wait to show her this!
I love this. I’ve been searching everywhere for something like this. Thank you.
I have been using your learn addition with playing cards with my kindergarten. He likes playing math versus doing those boring worksheets schools send home.
However, I am little confused on your method on how to teach subtraction. I will go back and reread your material.
Thanks.
Have you tried the method on this subtraction page? It’s pretty good.
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