Ready to spice up math class - Pretty cool birthday math trick!
Birthday Math Trick
Note: It's a good idea to try this trick out on yourself first, using your own birthdate.
How To Perform the Math Trick:
There's an example follow the steps below.
That's some Pretty Cool Math Stuff!
Here's an example below...
Let's suppose someone has a birthdate of August 22, 1964.
So we want to use the format of month/day/year so this birthdate would be 08/22/64.
Notice we only used two digits for the year.
1) 18 + 8 = 26
2) 26 x 25 = 650
3) 650 - 333 = 317
4) 317 x 8 = 2536
5) 2536 - 554 = 1982
6) 1982 / 2 = 991
7) 991 + 22 = 1013
8) 1013 x 5 = 5065
9) 5065 + 692 = 5757
10) 5757 x 20 = 115140
11) 115140 + 64 = 115204
12) 1295204 - 32940 = 82264
And there you have it....
8 . 22 . 64 which is the same as August 22nd, 1964!
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Kids don't want the same ol' boring math routine. That's why keeping math interesting and engaging with math tricks, puzzles, games, etc. we help motivate students to think more positive about math. I mean, don't we usually feel good about the things if we're having fun?
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