BOOK: Numero Mystika

FOUR FORM FUGUE In the Beginning I dance round and round, In 360 degrees the Circle is found. Spinning and rolling, I’m a wheel or the sun, I’m warm and I’m red, and my number is one.   From air and light we Angles are born, Two straight, yellow lines comprise our form, Triangles add […]

PRIME MAGIC!! The Primes are often known as the “boring” numbers; this is because they have no factors. “What’s the good of a number if nothing goes into it!?” 12-year-olds often complain. Apart from being limitless, the Primes are also magic; try this one on your young sceptics: Make a card for each of the […]

CHANGE THEIR LIVES – WITH MAGIC Sets & Patterns – Class 6 – Middle Lesson The Class 6 teacher waited nervously outside the Principal’s office. She had received a message – make that a summons! – earlier that Mr. Macintosh wanted a word in her lunch break. The secretary tapped away on her typewriter, oblivious […]

TITUS ON TRIAL – FOR CREATIVITY! Geometric Construction – Class 6 – Middle Lesson “You, Titus Aurelius, are charged with teaching children – in this case Class 6 – without the necessary qualification.” said Madam Bench of the Education Disciplinary Court. The judge was a woman in her mid-40s, with cropped, dark hair under her […]

SCHOOL OF THE GOLDEN HUNDRED Percentages – Class 6 – Main Lesson The great centaur galloped down the mountain side, its thunderous hooves striking lightning from the black stones. It slowed to a canter as it – he – approached the glen. The group of young centaurs looked up from their grazing; a few trotted […]