Everyone is obsessed with this algebra nonsense! It is a highly overrated urban myth and should be discarded in favor of almatra. I am much more at ease figuring out problems using only yarn, marbles and pompoms. It is so simple!!

Fundamentals of Al'Mat

Al'Mat consists of sets of marbles and sets of pompoms. There are various rules called operations that govern Al'Mat. An operation is closed if the resulting sets are the same type of item the starting sets. An identity for an operation is that set which has no effect on the starting set under that operation.

The empty set, represented by an empty yarn circle, contains neither marbles nor pompoms. The empty set is neither marble nor pompom!!!


HAW!! You see?? Does anyone else see the perfect simplicity and zen-ness in this system?? "It is neither marble nor pompom!!"

Tweed (At full cone)