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 […]
BOOK: Numero Mystika
Numero Mystika: Prime Magic
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 […]
Numero Mystika: Sets and Patterns in 6th Grade
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 […]
Numero Mystika: Geometric Construction in 6th Grade
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 […]
Numero Mystika: Engineering Math
BRIDGE OVER CREATIVE WATERS Engineering Maths – Class 6 – Middle Lesson Note that Earthschooling does this block in high school… Oh no, a meeting on maths!! But this college of Teachers meeting is in the technics room today – hmmm, it’s not as comfy as the staff room. We have to sit around the […]
Numero Mystika: Percentages in 6th Grade
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 […]