Our 24th MATH-Inic Special for Christmas is about multiplication of mixed numbers. We were trained to convert mixed numbers into improper fractions first before performing multiplication and later change the product into mixed numbers. Oftentimes direct application of the distributive…
Our 23rd MATH-Inic Special for Christmas is my personal favorite and I think will draw the most comments. I originally titled it the “See Saw Solution” the reason for which you will realize later. I use it to mentally solve…
Our MATH-Inic Special for today is the other half of “Using the average”. This time we will start with the difference of two squares: a2 – b2 = (a + b) (a – c). According to Sri Bharati Tirthaji, given…
If you were asked how many numbers are there from 26 to 89, would you try to recall the formula taught to us in grade school or would you actually count it? But if you were asked how many numbers…
One of the privileges enjoyed by senior citizens is the senior citizen’s discount on food, when eating in restaurants and fast food outlets. But disputes often happen over the computation of the discount because of the way it is computed.…
Happy New Year! In 2020, which is a leap year, Pi day or March 14 will fall on a Saturday. So will Sept 12, the date of the 1st International Vedic Mathematics Olympiad (IVMO 2020), which will be held in…
Our MATH-Inic Special for today Dec. 19 is one of my favorites because of its numerous applications. I first wrote about using the “Product of the Sums is the Sum of the Product(PSSP) ” in my book “Algebra Made Easy…
Last Wednesday evening, I came across a Youtube video “A different Way To Solve Quadratic Equations” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBalWWHYFQc) published just last Dec 12, 2019 by Po-Shen Loh, a Carnegie Mellon Math Professor and current ISA Math Olympiad coach. I found…
Teacher Training Course This certified course is run by MATH-Inic Online in conjunction with the Vedic Mathematics Academy. Description: This 9 week certificated course (36 lessons) is for those who have some teaching experience (it does not have to be in…
Grade 4 MTAP Questions 1. Admission tickets to a variety show cost P80 for adults and P50 for kids. The ratio of adults to kids 5 ∶ 2. If they paid a total of P10,000, find the number of adults…