Hello!
How are you? The picture at the top is a hexadecimal multiplication table. It is one of many ways that multiplication (九九) is taught in schools in a number of countries.
But before we start, here are the board notes for our first class in the Writing & Composition 1b for 9/16:
Now let's begin our first new theme for the new semester!
Activity/homework
Look at the video below. It's an elementary school math teacher in India showing patterns that children follow there to learn multiplication tables. It's in Hindi (ヒンデュ語), but you can follow the patterns if you look carefully.
While as science and technology majors you may know and/or understand these patterns already, how would you compare the teacher's method with how you learned multiplication tables in school?
(If you have any trouble seeing this video clip, go to this link here, or look on YouTube for "How math is taught in India," or paste in this URL: https://youtu.be/EIYPGfcCab0)
But before we start, here are the board notes for our first class in the Writing & Composition 1b for 9/16:
Now let's begin our first new theme for the new semester!
Activity/homework
Look at the video below. It's an elementary school math teacher in India showing patterns that children follow there to learn multiplication tables. It's in Hindi (ヒンデュ語), but you can follow the patterns if you look carefully.
While as science and technology majors you may know and/or understand these patterns already, how would you compare the teacher's method with how you learned multiplication tables in school?
What do you think of this method?
Have fun talking about this!
See you next class!
Image: Screenshot of image originally created by Me, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1983907
Video uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the content. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom use only.
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