"It's great! Now I get the right answers even though I haven't memorized the OLD SCHOOL multiplication tables yet!"

There are two schools where students are expected to remember 100 technical answers at once: medical school...and third grade!

That is understandable for med students, but third graders? Normal students who cannot retain the 100 answers to multiplication tables 1 through 10 are labeled "slow learners" while those with exceptional memories are called "average."

Well, now there is a tool that helps students multiply while learning to count and write. Noble's Columns (patent pending) are different from the traditional multiplication tables in that students can write these without knowing how to multiply. Students write Noble's Columns by simply counting and writing by 1's or by 2's (and only counting up to 10). The columns they end up with are then used to solve basic multiplication and division problems.

And this pc-based cd that makes it possible for even kindergartners to multiply is only $19.99!

Maxomatrix: The Patterns of Math Book constructs a framework of learning centered on the basic understanding of the relationships between the numbers 0 through 11.  This understanding is reinforced with a patterned repetition of means to a solution for 4th grade through middle school with 36 weeks (180 days) of classwork, review, and testing.

As is shown in my other math book, Learn 3 Years of Math in 30 Days!, math problems do not change, only the numbers used in the problems change.  That means the key to learning math is showing students when (not simply how) to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and demonstrating a patterned solution method.

The main difference between the two books: students have an understanding of math with Learn 3 Years of Math in 30 Days!.  With Maxomatrix: The Patterns of Math Book, students have a more in depth understanding.

Let’s look at what some consider one of the most difficult parts of math: metric conversion.  At a glance, most people may look at the problems below (especially if they are here for kindergarteners), and want to immediately click over to another page.  But upon closer inspection, we may quickly realize all these problems convert from its “kilo-version” (kilometers, kilograms) to meters or grams.  Therefore, in every one of these problems, I am introducing the pattern of simply moving the decimal point three places to the right for this type of metric conversion.

Convert from km to m
Convert from kg to g
1.  8.562 km =     _____ m
2.  94.873 kg =    _____ g
3.  0.7025 km =   _____ m
4.  40.059 kg =    _____ g
5.  68.2406 km = _____ m
6.  9.331 kg =     _____ g
7.  0.82975 km = _____ m
8.  10.0238 kg =  _____ g
9.  5.23417 km = _____ m
10.  0.5024 kg =  _____ g

And something for elementary Patterns of Math Book philosophy:

  1     10    100  1000     100000      1000000
x2    x2    x2    x2        x2            x2


With patent pending Noble’s Columns ©, students can write tables for multiplication not by already knowing how to multiply, but by being able to count to 10 and place these numbers in the appropriate column.  It is one of the cornerstones of the Patterns of Math Book  for early childhood education in math, and it allows students to correctly answer basic multiplication problems despite having not yet memorized the OLD SCHOOL multiplication tables.

In traditional text, no pattern is established.  That is what makes math appear difficult, and makes traditional math books more of a testing tool rather than the teaching tools you get with my books and basic multiplication CD, Noble’s Columns ©.