Number Battles

Since 1971,  I have been storing numbers in my minuscule brain, retaining some while others float into obscurity.  I have been blessed by a family that loves games and has an above average number sense. However, I would stop well before classifying any of us as gifted.  I am now a teacher and have seen technology invade traditional education.  Sometimes tech is positive, sometimes negative.  Many of us are scared by the possibilities that our new world will offer.  I am enthralled.

Number Battle was born from my desire to get my students engaged in learning and storing important mathematical numbers.   Our brains will evolve from our 1970s Algorithmic Organ to a Biological Machine that stores bits of info but can solve complex creative problems!  Number battle prepares you or your child for that future world.  The competitive creative future world of our posterity.

Dive in.  Play a game.  Host a tournament with friends and family.   

To become a winner you must first learn how to lose.  Only humans that have learned to lose can truly appreciate "the win"  Don't be afraid to lose.  Losing is temporary and each loss is a brick meant build a house that is indestructible.  If you've never lost then losing is completely destructive.  But if you have lost in life, you will appreciate small victories and large.  Go for it.  Compete. You have nothing to LOSE!

I believe the masterminds behind Common Core (whom I don't know) are actually on the right track, but are poor at public relations.   They are treating unions as the enemy, instead of embracing the spirit of the teacher.  I often wonder how advanced our society would be if we spent more time explaining why common core thinking is more necessary than "the way I did it in school, which served me well."  Get  your teachers on board, we are all on the same team.  If we are to cultivate the next generation of thinkers, we must plant seeds in a new way.  Stored mathematical algorithms are so 1980.  We need to change our brains  to prepare for a world that gives us unique problems to solve.  Problems that do not follow an A to Z path.  Yes, we need to Yes our brains still need to be fed pieces of