Magic Tricks For Kids

Magic tricks are one of the best methods for teaching children. They not only understand concepts better but learning truly becomes a fun experience for them. Also, they tend to remember concepts much better if they are taught in such a manner as they like to perform the tricks themselves and thus keep on repeating the trick and hence the concept.

As a teacher, you could probably start with a normal trick which has no teaching concept behind it and then go on to tricks which teach children about things.

Here, two tricks have been explained. One is a mind reading trick which can act as a good starter and then the simplest way to multiply any number with 5 has been illustrated as a teaching concept trick.

Mind Reader

First, write down DENMARK, KANGAROO and ORANGE on a piece of paper and fold it. Then give this sheet of paper to your volunteer from the audience.

Now, ask him to choose a number from 1 to 9. then ask them to multiply the number by 9. let us say that he chooses 5. then 5x9=45. now ask him to add the digits oif the answer together i.e. 4+5=9. now ask him to minus 5 from the answer i.e. 9-5=4.

Then, ask them to tell you the alphabet corresponding to the answer, i.e. A=1, B=2 and so on. In our example, the answer is D. Now, ask them to choose a country starting with the alphabet.

Next, ask them to think of an animal that begins with the last letter in their country's name. Finally, ask them to name a fruit that begins with the last letter of the animal's name. it is most likely that the answers will match DENMARK, KANGAROO and ORANGE !

How to multiply with 5

Ask your class to think of any number in the world and you can tell them the answer multiplied with 5 in a split second. This is how you do it :
Let us assume that the chosen number is 8600. Just divide it by 2 which is 4300.00. now, move the decimal point to the right once, i.e. 43000. That's it !

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