The multiplication tables they are an advance in the mental progress of children who thus acquire abstract skills and concepts that are fundamental in their development process. It is clear that numbers help us facilitate language and the learning of mathematics although when you grow up mathematicians also rely heavily on letters and their jargon is full of fascinating Greek letters.
What I had never seen, until today, is that mathematics could be represented with this beautiful work by Stefanie Posavec, which has also collaborated with McCandless, yes, the one at the New York train station. And what Stefanie proposes is to play with the numbers and convert them into shapes and colors that look great on the page of the multiplication tables in which you can also practice mathematics.
In Microsiervos they say that also you can make a poster, which I think is the most fun. You can always get a combination of numbers and make the appropriate zoom, as I tried to do to get the image that illustrates the article.
The zero is the gray ball, the one is a blue circle, the two is like a red liquor bonbon and from there it is a relationship between the number and the regular polygon with its sides that also has a fixed color: three a triangle, four a square, five a pentagon, six a hexagon, seven a heptagon, eight an octagon and nine a nonagon.
I think it is best for children to play with the page, discover what happens with the symbols and thus, perhaps, mathematics is less complicated and more fun while they learn in the end. Because let's not forget, all this mathematics is learned with effort, enthusiasm, dedication and much fall and rise again.
