Dear Magic Friends,

It all started with a phone call from the principal of the elementary school where I was booked to perform my school magic show in a few weeks.

“I got a favor to ask. I want a trick showing the magic of math. Do you have anything really good that you could do?” asked the principal.

Thinking quickly I replied, “No problem, I will perform a trick showing the wonders of math.”

“Great! I can’t wait to see it.” She said hanging up the phone.

That made two of us. I didn’t have any stage tricks showing the magic of math. To be honest I didn’t like math very much.

After a couple of weeks of trial and error, I developed an idea into a full blown stage trick. I was very excited over it. I was even beginning to enjoy math. Just a little.

I presented it at the school show. It was a huge hit with the kids AND the teachers. One teacher told me that he loved math, but has no idea how I did the magic trick. He loved it!

That’s been many years ago and I am still performing it to ooohs and aaaahs at my school shows.

You don’t realize it, but in the next few minutes you’re going to learn amaze children and adults while demonstrating the ‘Magic of Math.’

 
Can you see why I’m so excited?

You are probably asking yourself what happens in Math Madness. Here’s what happens:

You show two whiteboards on stage. One whiteboard is covered up. You point out that this is your prediction. Sixteen numbers are written on the other whiteboard. Members of the audience freely, yes a free choice, choose numbers until you get four numbers. These four numbers are added together to get one number. Let’s assume the number is eighty-three. You reveal your prediction. The audience nervously laughs.

You reveal that you correctly predicted the number not once. . .not twice . . but up to fourteen DIFFERENT ways! Each new revelation increases the ohhs and ahhs from the audience. The excitement continues to build. At the end of the trick, the audience spontaneously and loudly applauds. How cool is that?

But you don’t do any stage shows. No problem. This trick works just as well close up for adults AND kids. The artwork is included in the eBook. Just print it out and you can be performing the trick later today.

After years of keeping this magic trick to myself, I decided that it is time to let other magicians enjoy performing Math Madness as much as I have over the years.  I will be providing a link to the ebook in the near future.

Magically yours,