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A NEW Magic Roadshow is Online. Read it Free..

A NEW Magic Roadshow is Online. Read it Free..

A new Magic Roadshow Journal of Magic has published online. Although published for subscribers, I often make it available for anyone to read. All you need is a true interest in magic. This issue can be read entirely online -or- downloaded as a PDF and read on your device.. at your convenience. Also, this issue is 45 pages in length and 15,000 words. That’s a LOT of magic for FREE.!   In this Issue:

  • Gestalt  – A Card Effect from  Paul A. Lelekis
  • The Lost Peek  –  Paul A. Lelekis
  • The Value of Magic as a Teaching Tool  –  Free PDF Teaching Tool
  • Lost City Magic  vs. Las Vegas! – A Magical Journal
  • At The Table  –  Chris Randall    (A Review)
  • Morgan Strebler on Quora –  An Interview
  • 3 Effects From David Solomon –   Card Effects
  • Restaurant Magic and Children  –  An Opinion & An Effect –  Rick Carruth
  • The Collected Essays of Eugene Burger.  –  Downloadable PDF
  • How I Made Toronto’s CN Tower Vanish – Complete Episode from Jay Sankey
  • 3 Full Length Jay Sankey Ebooks  –  Great Free Resource
  • The Thirteen Paths –  Free PDF from R.Paul Wilson
  • TheatreCrafts Entertainment Technology Resources
  • Interview with Dusty Summers: Las Vegas’ First Nude Magician..
  • Warped and Restored  –  Vinny Marini’s Classic Card Trick –  Video Tutorial
  • How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking –  Video
  • Double lift – How to lift two cards – One Hand Double Flip
  • ‘Predict The Switch" Card Trick Revealed..  Tutorial
  • Understanding Misdirection –  Free PDF from Merchant of Magic
  • 1089 And All That   –  Resource and Effects
  • Mathematical Magic –  Tutorials
  • Very Satisfying Math Magic Video..
  • Hexahexaflexagons Galore.. Build Your Own..
  • Bizarre Magic – Websites and Resources
  • Magic and Parlor Tricks – Tutorials
  • Prop Tricks –  Tutorials
  • Important Information…

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Algebra-cadabra! Here’s a classic magic trick, and the mathematical secret behind it..

Algebra-cadabra! Here’s a classic magic trick, and the mathematical secret behind it..

image Here’s thanking Alex in Numberland and the Guardian for this brilliant bit of MathMagic.. I’ve performed this effect a number of times and it never fails to amaze…

   You only need a cursory familiarity with the work of magicians like Derren Brown and David Blaine to realise that at the heart of many illusions lies a piece of rock-solid mathematics.

Sometimes tricks require fooling people with probability, as Brown expertly did in The System, his classic show about predicting the results of horse races.

And sometimes it relies on genuinely surprising and clever theory.

The literature on mathematical magic overwhelmingly concerns tricks using playing cards.

Irishman Colm Mulcahy is a legendary cardsmith in the mathe-magical community, and his lovely new book Mathematical Card Magic is jammed with entertaining and thought-provoking tricks.

Here’s one that’s in the book…

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Romano Gets Big Thumbs Up for Mathematics Magic

Romano Gets Big Thumbs Up for Mathematics Magic

  Some of you guys know my appreciation for strong Math Magic. Derek Brouwer for the Independent Record reports on a math teacher at Four Georgians Elementary who uses mathmagic to simultaneously teach her students and win awards..

Learning math is a bit like magic, at least if your teacher is Melissa Romano.

Romano, a math teacher at Four Georgians Elementary, has found a way to use card tricks with her students, and in the process has honed cutting-edge techniques for teaching everyone’s favorite subject.

And for her abilities, Romano recently earned a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching from the U.S. government…

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