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Originally Posted by MKSixer
It's sad and a lost skill. My dad made me beat the cash register for a treat when I was young and it helped me learn to calculate in my head very quickly.
The future is in their hands!!  |
When we were kids, every night at the dinner table, my father would pick one of us (4 siblings) and call out a number. We had to do the multiplication tables to the beat of his hand on the table. Talk about pressure. I'll be damned, we can do math on the fly. And my father, still at 80, can run his finger down a page with 30, 40 numbers on it and total faster than any calculator.