Ez Times Table: A Fun, Right Brain Approach to Multiplication That Helps Kids Make Friends with Numbers By Playing with Patterns by Thomas Biesanz (2008-12-24)

An introduction to RIGHT BRAIN MATH where kids play with patterns and create the times table. Curriculum Review magazine says, “The words "math" and "fun" don't often make the same sentence. But, in this case, a new book does make math fun! EZ Times Table by Thomas Biesanz. This new book is a revolutionary visual and auditory introduction to math." Each step is illustrated in a full 8.5” x 11” table with fun graphic images. Google MisterNumbers for videos and RightBrainMath EZ Times Table is a fun, easy, and effective way to teach Math and plays with visual patterns, rhythms, and relationships of numbers. Right Brain Math helps numbers reveal secrets to their friends, the students. Right Brain Math includes the big pictures and plays with little parts of numbers, it plays with the whole times table and sometimes just the ones-digits number (we call them the Ones-ies) patterns. Right Brain Math creates a positive attitude about math. Right Brain Math Makes Friends with Numbers EZ Times Table teaches by playing with fun patterns. Traditional math instruction relies mainly on rote memory work. Many kids get turned off to math. EZ Times Table is a revolutionary visual and auditory introduction to math. Students now have a structure for numbers that makes sense to a child’s brain. EZ Times Table continues the pattern play. It uses a Tic-Tac-Toe square to create the 3’s and 7’s. It also invites kids to use pattern play to create the 2’s, 4’s, 6’s, 8’s, and 9’s, and ends with instructions to create a 20 x 20 multiplication table simply from patterns. Free Instructional videos are available on Youtube by MisterNumbers and DVD’s are available. This approach effectively teaches math. It promotes a crucial, positive attitude toward numbers. EZ Times Table also teaches pattern recognition, important in all learning, in a fun whimsical way. This book is useful to parents, teachers, and anyone who wants to help a kid have fun with math.