He can literally add numbers faster than he can talk.

363643924 20.

Who is he?

How is he so smart?

And did you know that he didn't even graduate from Heist 1535 Oh, my God.

Yeah, right.

That's amazing.

In Arizona, U S A.

I found Scott.

Hi, I'm Scott Flansburgh, and I'm faster than any calculator on the planet Earth.

This'll guy is so fast, he can keep adding any number two itself 36 times in 15 seconds.

And it looks like this.

Yes.

21 plus 46 plus 73 plus 86 plus 62 plus 24 plus 96 plus 1.

13 +14 plus 1.

39 plus 1.

78 plus 1 91 plus 1.

42 plus 1.

23 plus 1.

37 1535 Oh, my God, it's amazing.

But first, let me tell you how all off this started in third grade, Scott wasn't paying attention in math class.

So to punish him, his teacher called him to the board and asked him to solve a math question, but instead of getting into trouble, he got the correct answer without preparation.

So the teacher gave him another math problem, and he got the right answer again.

So I just added up the column of numbers, going down the columns backwards and just said the answer out loud.

And she was like, You're right, But where's your carry?

How'd you do that?

And I said, Oh, don't you start over Here she goes.

No, you have to start over here.

And so she gave us another one and I did it.

Justus fast And she goes, What are you doing?

Scott didn't just get the answer right by luck, he actually discovered a new way of counting.

And that's when I realized that maybe teachers don't know everything.

Maybe they're just teaching what they know.

And so, from that point forward, everything I would learn in math class, I would look for an easier way to get the answer.

Apparently, when you think of numbers from 0 to 9, as opposed 1 to 10, you can visualize the number grid better, and that apparently makes it easier to do multiplying and addition off numbers realized that everyone was learning how to count from 1 to 10.

But if you want to think like a calculator, there's No 10.

It's really zero through nine, and it turns out that doing numbers in your head is much easier left to right, then right toe left when you do it right toe left.

You have to remember all these numbers you're coming up with and carrying when you start from the left, your just keeping one running total, which makes it much easier because all those numbers that you go by and do disappeared you don't need to think about him anymore.

And so left to right is just a much more efficient approach to doing mental math.

His unique method and his unique brain became a deadly combination.

Before he knew it, he became the fastest human calculator in the world, not once, but twice according to the Guinness World Record, without ever attending college or graduating from high school, punching a two digit number, the same two digit number and hit equals, and I'm gonna start counting by that number.

This is my world records.

So tell me what number you picked.

I picked 26 so you have 50 to hit equals again to say 78 1.

Oh, 413015618220 a.

234 to 602863123336439041644246849452 Oh, so my world records 36 times in 15 seconds.

Now he goes to visit schools to show kids that math is not as complicated as we think.

Most students find math boring just because of the way it's taught.

So what I do is try to figure out ways to make math riel so that you run into these things in everyday life.

There's all kinds of opportunities to allow students and parents to see how important numbers are.

Whether you're at the grocery store doing your checkbook, buying a house, buying a car, leasing a car, all these different choices and options come down to numbers.

And so I use every opportunity I can in everyday life to help make numbers and math more rial for students he invented, fun patterns came up with easy tricks or kids to count.

Numbers are the most precise, powerful and popular language on the planet Earth.

My mission is to help them see how numbers are all around us in everyday life, whether use money, fractions and decimals.

There's all kinds of things around our everyday lives that are perfect for lessons to show students.

How important numbers truly are as you grow into being an adult is whether it's your bank account savings interest.

You buy a car, lease a car.

There's so many numerical decisions that come up in life.

It's just better to have students with a solid foundation of number sense.

Scott's story shows us that there is always more than one way to learn mawr than one way to find your answers.

Sometimes you just need to make your own rules.

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