Video: Meet the Human Calculator

From Denny: This guy, Scott Flansburg, is impressive. He's the Guinness World Record Holder of the fastest human calculator. What is more impressive is he says he has learned to see numbers in a new way than can revolutionize how we teach math to our children. Now that got my attention! He calls his just discovered new math trick The Nine Equation.

What he's talking about is that currently kids are taught math through rote memorization which makes no sense. He is teaching a technique of how to work math that it does make sense, turning on the calculator portion of our brains.

Flansburg is out promoting The American Math Challenge to get kids excited about math: AmericanMathChallenge and Mathletics. By the way, in this generation of girls, they have caught up statistically with their male peers in math!

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Video: What Time Is It? 1 of 5

From Denny: Just finished watching this incredible hour long program on the Science channel! Loved it! (gush gush...) Went to Science channel, and, of course, all they offer is a lame link, not the ability to embed this into the blog. So... found it on YouTube, yay!

Since it is a long program - and who has the time to watch this much at once? - I'm posting a portion of the series each day this week, enjoy!

Kid Science: Static Electricity Science Project For Kids: Swinging Cereal

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Static Electricity Science Project For Kids: Swinging Cereal:

"Did you know ordinary cereal can be used to demonstrate the properties of static electricity in an engaging science project? Kids can learn to love science if they are given the opportunity to learn about it within the context of the word around them.

Whether home on a break or just bored on the weekend, there are plenty of easy-to-do science projects kids can do at home. Fun science experiments can spur an interest in children who may or may not already be excited about science. This project demonstrates the properties of static electricity."

By Lela Davidson @ HubPages

From Denny: Great learning project for the kids and family to enjoy this weekend! Put a little science in your life! :) Just click on the title to take you to the rest of the article.