Drag rhythmic values into up to 8 beat blocks per line to build a drum groove, or click a tile then click a block to place it — handy on a trackpad.
Math skill: Find |u × v| for Axis-Aligned Vectors
How the beat teaches it: Every slot gives two vectors along the x- and y-axes — their cross product points along the z-axis with magnitude equal to the product of their lengths. Build that many notes anywhere in the kit.
This is lesson 3 of 24 in RockBlocks Math, Calculus III, a free course where every lesson turns a math idea into something you can count, hear, and play. The previous lesson, “Dot Product in 3D,” covered compute the Dot Product of Two 3D Vectors. Next is Lesson 4, “Parametric Equation of a 3D Line.”
Every slot above (A, B, C, D) is its own question, and it’s a real, blank RockBlocks beat the whole time — the same drag-and-drop tiles, kit, tempo, sheet music, and drummer view as anywhere else on the site. Tap ❓ Questionin the corner to read the current slot’s problem, build your answer right in the grid, then tap ✓ Check Answerto grade it. Once you’re done, keep going: expand the beat, drop it into a Stack, or save a copy to your own page — nothing here overwrites the lesson itself, so every visitor still starts from the same blank slots.