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Daniel Nest's avatar

For a second, I thought you'd be talking about synesthesia and how some people can "smell" numbers, etc. I always found that fastinating to read about.

As for the "vibrating sand" stuff, it actually made it into an old Cracked article I co-wrote back in the day: https://www.cracked.com/article_20829_5-amazing-magical-powers-created-by-simple-science.html

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Dale's avatar

In homeschooling the kids, learned about different ways of learning - visual, audio, tactile- and trying to incorporate as many as possible to better understand, and later retrieve. So in teaching math, they would read the equation or word problem, write the equation, say the equation, build the equation with manipulatives. Like exercise, use it or loose it.

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