Math is one of those subjects that many students struggle with – but it’s one of those subjects that you really can’t afford to ignore. Even if you aren’t struggling with it, you can always afford to be a little better at it. You may even have watched those individuals with amazing mental math abilities and wished you had that ability. Well, you don’t have to be a human calculator to be good at mental math if you have a few good tricks up your sleeve and, in this day and age of the Internet, you don’t even need to come up with all the tricks yourself. You just need to copy them from someone else. What better place to borrow ideas from than Youtube? There are so many videos on Youtube teaching mental math tricks that you could spend hours just watching them. These are just a few interesting ones that I found but they are by no means an exhaustive list of videos to follow…
Mental Math Secrets
Math with Scott Flansburg
If you’re going to learn how to be better at math, what better mentor to look towards than Scott Flansburg – the human calculator? In this series of videos, Scott Flansburg says we struggle with math because we were taught the ‘wrong’, more complex method. Math can be simple and even magical when learned it the right way…
If you liked that, you might be interested in Scott’s books:
- Math Magic: How to Master Everyday Math Problems
- Math Magic for Your Kids: Hundreds of Games and Exercises from the Human Calculator to Make Math Fun and Easy
Math Tricks
Glad2Teach also has some cool math tricks to help you work math problems out a little faster…
Vedic Math
Vedic Math is an ancient Indian method that sidesteps traditional computations in a manner that provides a shortcut while being fun to use and to learn. Learn more about it from Gaurav Tekriwal:
50 Vedic Math Tricks from Mind Math:
More about Vedic Math:
- Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas
- Vedic Mathematics Made Easy
- Vedic Math Academy
Related:
- The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child with JUMP Math
- Mental Math – Soroban / Anzan
- Resources: Free Online Math Sites for Kids
- Educational Apps – including apps for teaching children math
- More Math Resources
Nurture for the Future 