Hugo Briggs - The Mental Math Magician: Underground Secrets and Tricks to Amazing Lightning Speed Math and Becoming a Real Life Human Calculator

The Mental Math Magician

Underground Secrets and Tricks to Amazing Lightning Speed Math and Becoming a Real Life Human Calculator

Written by Hugo Briggs

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Introduction

C ongratulations on purchasing The Mental Math Magician: Underground Secrets and Tricks to Amazing Lightning Speed Math and Becoming a Real Life Human Calculator and thank you for doing so. For those people whose affinity with math does not come easily, it is hard not to think of those who can do a wide range of calculations in their head like magicians, conjuring answers as if they simply pulled it from thin air. However, the truth of the matter is that there is no sorcery at play and rather than calling on the dark arts, these masters of mental magic are simply taking advantage of formulas and calculations that anyone can do to make their calculator largely obsolete.

While the bad news is that this means the world is a somewhat less magical place, the good news is that you can wield these mighty powers for yourself, utilizing all the tried and true equations and good old elbow grease. For you see, being able to do math quickly in your head is a skill, which means that it can be improved with practice just like anything else. While you wont find arcane tips and secrets to come upon answers magically inside, you will find plenty of step-by-step instructions to ensure that you will never be caught unexpectedly by a stray math problem again.

The following chapters will provide you with a roadmap to conquer all types of equations, no matter how wild and wooly they might appear at first. To start, you will learn a wide variety of ways to speed up the type of problems you are likely to run into most frequently, like complex addition problems, while also learning many of the basics that will serve you well, regardless of the type of equations you are solving. Next, you will build on what you have learned by speeding up the rate at which you can solve subtraction problems and cementing additional core skills along the way. Then you will take things up a notch in complexity, learning about the many ways you can improve the rate at which you complete both multiplication and division problems.

The second half of the book focuses on tips, tricks, and strategies that are going to be extremely useful in a variety of specific circumstances. You will learn a host of common conversions you can use on everything, from miles to kilometers, to Fahrenheit to Celsius and everything in between. From there you will learn about the great art of estimation, as well as tips and tricks for finding squares, roots cubes and more. Finally, you will put all of your thoughts of practical application on the shelf and instead focus on a wide variety mental math magic tricks that you can use to impress your friends.

There are plenty of books on this subject on the market, so thanks again for choosing this one! Every effort was made to ensure that this book is filled with as much useful information as possible, please enjoy!

Chapter 1: Addition

A dding two numbers together is the basis of all arithmetic, and mental math is no different. While the tips and tricks discussed in this chapter arent going to blow your mind, it will be a useful tool to get used to some of the common practices you will come to know and trust in the coming chapters, while also learning a number of useful patterns as well.

Mix things up

W hen it comes to adding things together as quickly as possible when numbers are being tossed at you in a hurry, the first thing you want to do is to put them in order in your head in a way that you can add them together as quickly as possible. To do so you will have to arrange the numbers from biggest to smallest first, while 1 + 8 and 8 + 1 both amount to 9, there is less work involved for your brain when you are adding 1 to 8 as opposed to adding 8 to 1. The exception to this rule is if you can put numbers together to form units of 5 or 10 which are almost always going to be easier to do first.