A mathemagical card trick!

I learned this delightful trick from this ‪@numberphile‬ video featuring the brilliant James Grime (‪@singingbanana‬): • James ❤️ A Card Trick ...
This video was originally broadcast for EducationLIVE, part of the NSW Department of Education's resources for assisting children and parents learning from home during lockdown: fb.watch/v/TxdiLvFj/
More resources available at www.misterwootube.com

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  • @dineshvyas
    @dineshvyas2 жыл бұрын

    Switched red marker and blue marker 10 time and put cap on everytime, only a true mathematician would do it.

  • @raynalguillaume

    @raynalguillaume

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can do better :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/X3yF1NKapsjAetI.html

  • @karam09992

    @karam09992

    2 жыл бұрын

    I remember our VG sir 😀

  • @7636kei

    @7636kei

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@raynalguillaume Of _bloody_ course someone would ping BPRP XD

  • @DeJay7

    @DeJay7

    2 жыл бұрын

    And then there is BPRP

  • @nithilalogathas672
    @nithilalogathas6722 жыл бұрын

    Eddie makes maths worth it

  • @eddiewang4131

    @eddiewang4131

    2 жыл бұрын

    thanks really appreciate it

  • @ldawgj2749

    @ldawgj2749

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah

  • @squarerootof-1307
    @squarerootof-13072 жыл бұрын

    he's so enthusiastic about math, its so wholesome :) i didnt really enjoy math before, but his ted talk inspired me, and now math is my favorite subject :) Thank you, Mr. Woo.

  • @MarckCat

    @MarckCat

    2 жыл бұрын

    His Ted talk was average... 🤣🙏 But he is a good teacher👌

  • @reststop3632

    @reststop3632

    2 жыл бұрын

    I did not like math Enthusiasm changed me Thank you Mr. woo I turned your comment into a haiku.

  • @christianpaul3651

    @christianpaul3651

    2 жыл бұрын

    He is about math just like girls about scrotal sack

  • @user-uj9bk9rv2i

    @user-uj9bk9rv2i

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@reststop3632 haha that was clever and creative at the same time, loved it 😁 nice inspiration you got there

  • @kiit8337

    @kiit8337

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@christianpaul3651 🤣🤣🤣

  • @msjche
    @msjche2 жыл бұрын

    New favorite channel. 43 yr old engineer business owner. Can't wait to introduce my kids to this content. Bravo

  • @arynstack264
    @arynstack2642 жыл бұрын

    I did this with my class, then I had them take away the 9 and 10 and try it again with 8 cards, then again with 6 cards to see if they understood that they got square root answers...25, 16, 9!

  • @arghyadeeppal9638

    @arghyadeeppal9638

    2 жыл бұрын

    Square not square roots

  • @rishabhpokharel430

    @rishabhpokharel430

    Жыл бұрын

    @@arghyadeeppal9638 perfect squares bruh

  • @neilprabhu629
    @neilprabhu6292 жыл бұрын

    19:00 it’s because of the nature of ordering the numbers from left to right: there are 5 low cards and so if there are x low cards in one pile there will be 5 - x low cards in the other pile. Since the cards are ordered from left to right a low card can never be opposite a low card and in turn a high card can never be opposite another high card.

  • @EtoileLion

    @EtoileLion

    2 жыл бұрын

    Another way to think about it: Assume you had 10-6 as one of your pairs. 10 is the highest card; there can be no card higher. It's in player A's hand. in order for it to line up with the 6, the 6 must be the lowest card in player B's hand. (because the highest card in player A's hand matches with the lowest card in player B's hand) What 4 cards can be higher than the 6? 7,8,9,10. But we already used 10; so this is an impossibility. There are not 4 cards higher than the 6 left to fill out the other player's hand.

  • @ianrobinson8518

    @ianrobinson8518

    6 ай бұрын

    @@EtoileLionYour explanation is correct of course. It’s an important point that is missed in the video. However it doesn’t strictly prove that if it’s true for 10, it’s also true for 9 then 8 etc. Perhaps a form of inductive reasoning is necessary. That aside, without affecting the result, the two players could vertically swap their highs for lows so one has all highs and the other all lows. Then the H-L formulation is obvious. BTW I’m not sure it’s possible to prove it’s true by strictly algebraic means. I suspect not.

  • @smritiii7697
    @smritiii76972 жыл бұрын

    I found your channel recently and I've never been taught math this way. You are beyond amazing and your enthusiasm makes it worth it.

  • @iulianionescu
    @iulianionescu2 жыл бұрын

    I've never seen anyone so happy about math and about calculations making sense. Great job!!

  • @johannes.kielmann

    @johannes.kielmann

    2 жыл бұрын

    To me it feels like he's competing with Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths on that matter. :D I can only agree though, it's done really well.

  • @saikumaryerubandi4445
    @saikumaryerubandi44452 жыл бұрын

    Please keep doing the excellent work you always do Eddie. Keep encouraging kids to Math. Thank you

  • @aperson2020
    @aperson20202 жыл бұрын

    I love math, i love that Eddie loves math, i love Eddie for making math fun. Thanks Eddie.

  • @AditiMuskan
    @AditiMuskan9 ай бұрын

    The world really needs more teachers like you sir. Being a math enthusiast, I love watching everything you teach and explain. Its about the cheerfulness and passion for the subject and the way you teach. Math is really beautiful. We just need someone like you to show us that beauty. Hats off!!!!

  • @titaniumdiveknife
    @titaniumdiveknife2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, beautiful patterns. Very beautiful. Thank you Mr. Woo

  • @nockynock4840
    @nockynock4840 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this demonstration Eddie. I am a computer science lecturer and I used this 'trick' to highlight the importance of pattern recognition; one of the four key characteristics of computational thinking. My students were laser focused and engaged and loved it!

  • @karanmudaliar133
    @karanmudaliar1332 жыл бұрын

    This improved my mood a lot. Thanks for sharing this video.

  • @tannerboos2268
    @tannerboos22682 жыл бұрын

    This can be generalized as well. If you have a set of the first 2n numbers broken into two random groups of n numbers and paired off in this way then the differences sum to n^2

  • @soumyadeepvishwakarma3875

    @soumyadeepvishwakarma3875

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, true

  • @sciab3674
    @sciab36742 жыл бұрын

    Like you Eddie, always smile and relaxing. Good personality.

  • @chayanmaitra4150
    @chayanmaitra41502 жыл бұрын

    The way you explain is superb... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I just loved it ❤️

  • @darkblader572
    @darkblader572 Жыл бұрын

    I love your videos. THANK YOU for making maths so fun for me.

  • @p.janset8594
    @p.janset85942 жыл бұрын

    I love math ever since I've discovered your love, excitement to math

  • @thenuggywuggy8389
    @thenuggywuggy83892 жыл бұрын

    It’s always nice to see self working tricks in action since most of them are based on math

  • @bootehbertha933
    @bootehbertha9332 жыл бұрын

    New to the channel mad respect for the work you are doing here.!

  • @Alvin864-wy9ol
    @Alvin864-wy9ol2 ай бұрын

    Eddie woo is good at everything

  • @ryosuke9727
    @ryosuke97272 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful and fun yet so simple thank you for this video :)

  • @trungnguyen-xuan7942
    @trungnguyen-xuan79422 жыл бұрын

    So good!! Definitely will try this with my class. Thanks a lot, stay safe

  • @may7680
    @may76802 жыл бұрын

    Eddie, you are living legend!

  • @sharadkapkar3689
    @sharadkapkar36892 жыл бұрын

    Sir you are one of the greatest teacher I have ever seen

  • @PixelPerfectBlade
    @PixelPerfectBlade2 жыл бұрын

    I love this kind of videos !

  • @liss35
    @liss352 жыл бұрын

    Really admire your knowledge in Mathematics, and the way you teach, thank you for informative video you just made Mathematics fun to learn. You are like my favorite Prof Roger Antonsen. May God bless you Prof Eddie Woo☺️

  • @johnryder1713
    @johnryder17132 жыл бұрын

    Well I knew he was a magician in the classroom, I never expected him to start doing card tricks!

  • @mikemiller9165
    @mikemiller91652 жыл бұрын

    Eddie, Great presentation! I am a magician who loves mathemagic but who struggles trying to make it fun for audiences. Your style is great!

  • @developerpranav
    @developerpranav Жыл бұрын

    This was a very awesome video, he explained the logic behind this trick so well :D

  • @GlouriusGamer123
    @GlouriusGamer123 Жыл бұрын

    OMG!!! I NEED THIS TEACHER!! he is absolutely the BEST! :3

  • @math_the_why_behind
    @math_the_why_behind2 жыл бұрын

    Excited to watch this video!

  • @scritch9549
    @scritch95492 жыл бұрын

    I love this guy!

  • @nicholasogburn7746
    @nicholasogburn774610 ай бұрын

    He knows that that shuffle is a wash. This guy has wrecked home games.

  • @operamini3635
    @operamini36352 жыл бұрын

    And thank you so much for this video.

  • @smar3167
    @smar31672 жыл бұрын

    Eddie is a mathemagician!

  • @centimeter1000
    @centimeter10002 жыл бұрын

    Wow, it's so amazing.

  • @cuebal
    @cuebal2 жыл бұрын

    You are a very good teacher

  • @kelvincheng5620
    @kelvincheng56202 жыл бұрын

    It will be so great and meaningful to be Eddie’s student😍🔥

  • @AppyKumari
    @AppyKumari Жыл бұрын

    OMG!!!!! I love this. Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @ryuzaki_ray
    @ryuzaki_ray2 жыл бұрын

    Before I’m a magician, now Im a mathematician. Thanks to you!

  • @clarkeugene5727

    @clarkeugene5727

    Жыл бұрын

    So true, same here. Now I can have them count down to 25 in the 3 deck and have that number in the envelope.

  • @tonyanderson5123
    @tonyanderson51232 жыл бұрын

    I wish he would do videos on the concepts behind Fourier and Laplace transforms!

  • @aimankuaci
    @aimankuaci2 жыл бұрын

    you make it looks so easy !

  • @rtxensueur1186
    @rtxensueur11862 жыл бұрын

    Thanks mr.woo you're m'y light in math

  • @user-hg1hc1bp9y
    @user-hg1hc1bp9y2 ай бұрын

    Great fun ! An other way will be to look at the 5 vertical columns. Where we have 10 the addition of the 3 cards will give 20 where is 9 will give 18 , 8-16, 7-14, 6-12

  • @RalphEllis
    @RalphEllis2 жыл бұрын

    More interestingly, playing cards represent the Cosmos. 4 suits = 4 seasons 13 cards per suit = 13 lunar months in year 52 cards in total = 52 weeks in year 364 total all spots = 364 days in year Plus the Joker representing the odd 1 or 1.25 …thus equalling 365.25 days in a year This is the reason cards were esoteric and mystical. Ralph.

  • @emmett1963

    @emmett1963

    3 ай бұрын

    Wow

  • @vishnubabu6149
    @vishnubabu61492 жыл бұрын

    We need more videos like this.😘

  • @periodictable1184
    @periodictable11845 ай бұрын

    I love you sir. You are my most favourite mathematics teacher.

  • @someone8615
    @someone8615 Жыл бұрын

    I wish that i have Eddie as a teacher when i was younger bro💕💕

  • @peika8324
    @peika832411 ай бұрын

    Man I wish I discovered you much much earlier, still is better late than never

  • @kawaiiV75
    @kawaiiV752 жыл бұрын

    3:48 Loneliness just hits different 🥲

  • @danieljobin9408
    @danieljobin94082 жыл бұрын

    you are math crazy! I love it.

  • @BenjaminRayner
    @BenjaminRayner2 жыл бұрын

    More please 🤯🤓 looks like the building blocks to those bigger prediction tricks that are all too common now

  • @sabbirhasan2258
    @sabbirhasan22589 ай бұрын

    Mind blowing!

  • @mymemories9719
    @mymemories9719 Жыл бұрын

    I really want this kind of teaching in my country, although I am a commerce student, but still our education needs to be interesting like sir showed today.... Literally Sir, Instead of choosing celebrities, I would choose you as my role model Regards A Proud Indian & Your Subscriber.

  • @mr.misbah7577
    @mr.misbah75772 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @anonakkor9503
    @anonakkor95032 жыл бұрын

    Math & magic 2 things I love ❤️

  • @tambuwalmathsclass
    @tambuwalmathsclass2 жыл бұрын

    For we the Mathematicians, we know it's possible. But you could have tell other people that you have a paper hidden which you will reveal in the end. Great one mentor. 💪

  • @Orwic1
    @Orwic1 Жыл бұрын

    A great presentation. I’m sure students would enjoy learning maths with Eddie - he’s really enthusiastic and explains things so clearly. I’m a scientist, so need to know some maths (especially statistics), but I feel it would be good for me to brush up my maths knowledge by attending his classes!

  • @RockaByeYT
    @RockaByeYT2 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see an episode about applied math on physical training sometime :D

  • @Seadansr1
    @Seadansr1 Жыл бұрын

    my favorite math card trick involves 21 cards where I can guess anyone cards no matter if it is the first, last or a middle anywhere card. by the third move, I already know their card before finishing the trick. i can then just move cards around into multiple piles and by the end, I have their card left that they had chosen. it's called either 21 Cards or Magical 13

  • @mmh1922
    @mmh19222 жыл бұрын

    Well done!

  • @MarckCat
    @MarckCat2 жыл бұрын

    You should explain some magic card tricks (David Copperfield). He has some cool tricks easy to explain with mathematics

  • @nathanielcah7039
    @nathanielcah70392 жыл бұрын

    Awesome, very interesting

  • @akkemik
    @akkemik2 жыл бұрын

    i wished you have been my math teacher. Thank you

  • @raginibargaway2067
    @raginibargaway20672 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @rafiulislamatanu147
    @rafiulislamatanu1472 жыл бұрын

    Just wow!!!

  • @xed_i2070
    @xed_i20702 жыл бұрын

    Just by hearing him explaining this you know he's a teacher. Methodical.

  • @hansm566
    @hansm5662 жыл бұрын

    Numberphile did the same trick. Still fun to watch

  • @samad5125
    @samad51252 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @aboozarhoseini
    @aboozarhoseini2 жыл бұрын

    Very good, thank you master

  • @conamore7887
    @conamore78872 жыл бұрын

    WOW! Incredible hidden patterns

  • @ShashankBhavaraju
    @ShashankBhavaraju2 жыл бұрын

    Big fan...

  • @jayjaycaguioa8209
    @jayjaycaguioa82092 жыл бұрын

    The rearranging of the cards to ascending order from low to highest is the key on this one, or else this thing ain't gonna work. Still a great vid Eddie 🍻

  • @xavier9577
    @xavier95772 жыл бұрын

    19:00 that is because he said in the beginning to arrange the cards in ascending order left to right and same for opposite in perspective.

  • @chlupl
    @chlupl2 жыл бұрын

    Cards 1-8 would always come to 16, 1-6 would be 9, 1-4 would be 4 and 1-12 would be 36. You can quickly find the outcome with o=(h/2)² where o is the outcome and h is the highest number in the range. This does require that the range is consecutive, starts with 1 and ends with an even number.

  • @gamingwithranjit
    @gamingwithranjit2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir

  • @antonanton3136
    @antonanton31362 жыл бұрын

    ohnestly you're just the best

  • @MLife1000
    @MLife10002 жыл бұрын

    Cool!

  • @pani62172
    @pani621722 жыл бұрын

    I wish there was a maths degree dedicated to you sir

  • @user-sq3nx1ft4o
    @user-sq3nx1ft4o2 жыл бұрын

    PERFECT

  • @particleonazock2246
    @particleonazock22462 жыл бұрын

    Hey! We need some brown paper! In the spirit of Numberphile, of course.

  • @mnagapavankumar5870
    @mnagapavankumar58702 жыл бұрын

    High - low because we are arranging in ascending order on each side

  • @samm6473
    @samm64732 жыл бұрын

    the second time you layed out the cards you put down the exact same thing i had

  • @Alvin864-wy9ol
    @Alvin864-wy9ol2 ай бұрын

    he is very smart

  • @Healthsolution.694
    @Healthsolution.6942 жыл бұрын

    great sir❤❤

  • @Felix-rw6bk
    @Felix-rw6bk2 жыл бұрын

    I hope and wish my comments are not offensive to anyone, but I hope God continues to illuminate Eddie woo's beautiful mathematical brain to help him find the answers to the many issues affecting our world. You are very inspirational and an example for others to follow.

  • @hedgedoge5562
    @hedgedoge55622 жыл бұрын

    Here before this blows up!

  • @anniegraham7911
    @anniegraham7911 Жыл бұрын

    We were at Chatham High and I was from Cundletown Public

  • @emanuelecerri8806
    @emanuelecerri88062 жыл бұрын

    So the fact that your first attempt gave palindromic red in the middle was just a coincidence?

  • @PaulSinnema
    @PaulSinnema Жыл бұрын

    Taking the low from the high must be physiological because there is no rule that you should do that. But anyway, love your enthusiasm explaining things to me. Thank you Eddie.

  • @eshtiaqueahmedfuad3810
    @eshtiaqueahmedfuad38102 жыл бұрын

    Respect

  • @dontang6906
    @dontang6906 Жыл бұрын

    He looks like he uses 5 chopsticks to eat instead of a pair.

  • @nayabtahir6393
    @nayabtahir63932 жыл бұрын

    I figured it out before your explanation...

  • @shadowwalker4633
    @shadowwalker4633 Жыл бұрын

    It will always work and will be the square of the number of cards each one has and it works only in the reverse order ,if we put them on same order there will be different values all over with the lowest being 5 and the highest 25 when all cards would be high up and low down.Math will always work when there are preset conditions but if we would just shuffle a deck and try to grab anything by chance it will never work cuz there is no algorithm like in the rubix cube even if we know the whole deck the number of cards from the shuffle will change cuz the switching doesnt work on order it always can go back or forth.

  • @JCResDoc94
    @JCResDoc942 жыл бұрын

    *just like tha FED from wanda vision of the same name!*

  • @customan10
    @customan102 жыл бұрын

    Hi Eddie, a humble idea: try to lower the Gain on your mic channel to get rid of the overdrive on it.

  • @powderedphantom5765
    @powderedphantom57652 жыл бұрын

    I wish I was half as good at maths as him

  • @ALVINPGTM84
    @ALVINPGTM842 жыл бұрын

    hi can i interpret as this too ? taking any number range (1-10) that split equally random to two group, where each group hold 5 cards, then the possible 'red' value will be 5^2=25 another example , a pool of number range ( 1-18) that split equally random to two group, where each group hold 9 cards, then the possible 'red' value will be 9^2=81 this x^y where x is number of card that hold by a group after equally divided from the pool, and y = number of group divide. this will hold true for 'red' value if and only if number of group divide is always 2.