Math the easy way! - The Human Calculator

We've all seen videos or maybe have heard about people who can do large equations in their heads and do it just as fast or faster than a calculator? I know I've wondered how in the world they do this... Not sure if this is the only method or not, but it seems Mike Byster has found a way and he's offering to teach it to people, which I find to be quite noble... Wish I had him around when I was in high school or grade school... I would have been much better at math...

YouTube Link

If you want to e-mail Mike visit his home page. You can also arrange for him to visit your school which I believe he does for free...

More information on Mike...
Mike Byster - Wiki

reply to post by ElectricUncleSam

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EUS thanks for the vid ~realy interesting stuff
You may also like this one which shows how the Chinese used to do multiplication:
www.hi5.com...
Cheers Karl



[edit on 01/24/07 by karl 12]

Thanks I will check that link out... I just thought this was cool because they show you how to do it... Well just one little trick on how to multiply 2 2 digit numbers, but still cool stuff... Makes learning math fun and it would be interesting to see how this applies to other subjects as well...