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: Compute aⁿ mod m Using Repeated Squaring
How the beat teaches it: Every slot gives a small aⁿ mod m — square step by step, reducing mod m at each stage, rather than computing the huge power first. Build that many notes anywhere in the kit.
This is lesson 7 of 24 in RockBlocks Math, Number Theory, a free course where every lesson turns a math idea into something you can count, hear, and play. The previous lesson, “Fermat's Little Theorem,” covered find aᵖ mod p. Next is Lesson 8, “The Chinese Remainder Theorem.”
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.