Wednesday, January 18, 2012

2 and 3 digit multiplication / brainetics scam?

I saw an informercial about brainetics.  This man was selling "Brainects" and students were doing all these math problems in their heads.  3 digit x 3 digit multiplication, 2 digit x 2 digit multiplication, division, etc. in a matter of seconds.  I was interested immediately.  I used youtube to teach multiplication as well as to show my students some of these multiplication tricks.  I then explained further "why" these multiplication tricks worked which was kind of brilliant but kind of a scam since it was using the basic principals of multiplication.

Here is an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxvBwBTWngc

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