I'm not sure what inspired me to create this little application. But I've been thinking about my grade school math lately.
As I'm 32 years old, it's been at least 20 years since I was drilled on my multiplication tables. And despite the fact that I went to an Ivy League college and have worked doing computer programming, I have yet to be put in a real-world situation where that would require me to multiply 7 times 13, much less 13 times 29, etc. But still it bothers me when I do try to figure out some math problem in my head that I can't do it. I know I'm a smart person, but mental math (which often requires you to put some part of the problem in your short term memory) is beyond me.
A few months ago I saw a book about doing math problems in your head. I was flipping through it and it got me excited about learning the techniques. I haven't pick up the book yet, but I have been ruminating on the idea of mental math.
Coupling that idea with my new found passion for Adobe Flash CS4, I decided to make a little application that allows you to actually see the math problems as you solve them, by using blocks. Doing programmatic graphics and animation has gotten a lot easier these days and a program like this would have been difficult to program even a few years ago (at least for a normal person, like myself).
Anyway, it took me a night to make it, and I decided to put it out there. I know most of you are here because you want to learn piano chords, but everybody could stand to brush up on their multiplication, right?
Multiplication Table Visualizer
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