Friends & Family Webinar: How to Become a Human Calculator with Scott Flansburg

hello my name is Kevin Hickey I'm the CEO prevalent in with schools and offices shutdown and most of us working from home and spending time with our families the prevalent team wanted to provide a little fun break with a special online presentation with Scott plans Berg the human calculator Scott's been a good friend for over 30 years he's appeared on shows like The Oprah Winfrey Show Ellen the Today Show he is the Guinness world record holder for the Hume fastest human calculator he's also the founder of the counting bait when you're home alone with your spouse young children or young adults I think you'll find there's something for everyone but before we start I want to ensure everybody we've taken every healthcare precaution necessary to put this webinar on the the cameras being operated remotely by phone we're all practicing social distancing this office is closed where it's three people in here and I promise you we're taking every precaution wanted to kick back have a little fun and you know I'm going to turn it over to Scott now and and hopefully you all find this enjoyable we are going to record this session so be on our website in the future if you want to go back for any references for some fun tips that you've learned from Scott today have a great day okay well thank you Kevin and I want to thank the prevelant team for having me today I'm very excited about this opportunity because we're all in a unique situation and so I just want to make it as fun as I can here today we're not going to cover a lot of stuff we're just going to cover stuff that it'll help everybody so to get started I need Kevin to help me warm up my brain and so what we're gonna do is start with number calculations so I'm gonna try to do them in my head and Kev's gonna do them on this calculator so here we go this is called an app called digits and so cab you get started we're gonna start out I got to warm up my brain I'm not an athlete I'm a mathlete so I have to stretch out a little bit so let's do some addition of two-digit numbers a bunch of them and I'll say plus between each two-digit number tells you I'm ready for the next one okay I'm ready oh sorry cleared out clear out just a bunch of two-digit numbers like 56 73 stuff like that sorry we're gettin to the bigger stuff later 49 plus plus plus plus four and one more three nine four she gets 394 all right okay so I'm gonna show you how to do that a couple minutes all right I learned how to figured out how to do this when I was in third grade by accident but let's keep going cap let's do some multiplication just give me like two two-digit numbers and I'll multiply them in my head times that's 8277 is all right that I get it 82 yeah all right all right I'm still warming up let's go for a division give me like a three-digit divided by a one digit to 63 try another one that was pretty easy pick tough numbers that's 132 point four two eight five seven one four two eight five yada-yada-yada it just keeps going forever okay so now I'm warmed up so what I want to demonstrate for you next is something I could discover it I could do and I was in about eighth grade cab just for fun clearly calculators punch in 12 plus 12 and hit the calculate and hit equals and it'll say 24 but hit equals again and watch what happens it adds 12 more and if he hit equals again it should add 12 more now you just take keep hitting equals it'll count by that number and my buddy Andy did that in front of math class one day and he said hey Scott what's 28 plus 28 I said 56 and he accidentally hit equals again and it added 28 more and he goes hey what's 28th morning so well that's 84 he goes what's enough to 28 more and it was like something woke up in my brain and now I've had this Guinness World Record for over 20 years as fastest human calculator so here's how it works is the Guinness people gave me 15 seconds to race the fastest account in the world using a 10 key calculator the judge chose 38 so the guy in the calculator had to do 3/8 plus 3/8 plus 3/8 plus 3/8 plus 3/8 as fast as he could for 15 seconds racing me counting by 38 out loud at the end of the 15 seconds he had 28 answers and I had 36 so actually beat the Machine by 8 and so cab clear this out and I'll pick a tough two-digit number you want I don't tell me what it is yeah I just punch it in and then hit the plus sign and then hit the same two-digit number again and hit equals and I'm just gonna start counting by that number you just hit equals and keep up with me as I say the next answer I'm ready when you are 174 261 348 435 522 609 six nine six seven eight three eight seven zero nine five seven one zero four four one one three one one two one eight one three or five one three ninety one four seven nine one five six six one six five three one seven four one hu seven nine four 2001 yada yada 2001 that was a good year okay so you can see I can just count by a number as fast as I can talk my mouth actually slows me down my brain is going so fast when that happens the numbers are just flying through there but when I film this for Guinness I did this and I set the record 36 dancers in 15 seconds that's been there for about 20 years now we went to a commercial break and the guy said hey Scott you're in the book but we think you're cheating and I was like how do you cheat counting by 38 he goes well we don't think you're actually counting we think you've memorized all these answers and I said that would be even more amazing to memorize all those numbers and I said so instead what about instead of starting at zero we started a random number so kept punching a random two or three digit number and I can see it it's okay it doesn't matter 249 now hit plus so our starting number is to 49 and now you hit Plus now pick a two-digit number you want me to count by starting at 249 to just say it out loud that's too easy cleared out let's start over because you had a 49 in the first one I could you know anybody could do that right to 49 plus so I've never done this patter before here we go 327 four oh five four eight three five six one six three nine seven one seven seven nine five eight seven three nine five one one oh two nine one mmm like that I can still go the same speed and so I am tuned into numbers and then I hosted the Olympics for mental math it's called memory add for mental math World Records in Las Vegas in November 2016 and I got challenged for my record and the girl that challenge we wanted to do a three-digit number so that has an error yet but we're gonna do it right now just for fun so Kevin be gentle don't go crazy on me but pick like a three-digit number and then don't tell me what it is yet punch it in and then hit plus and then the same three-digit number and hit equals and I'm going to start counting by that three-digit number 498 747 996 one two four five one four nine four one seven four three one nine nine two two two four one two four nine oh two seven three nine two nine eight eight three two four seven like that just as fast I just fly as soon as I ask my brain that question the numbers should start flying it so I really tuned it into numbers and so the rest of the show I want to spend showing you how to see numbers and make it easier for you and everyday knife so cab thank you very much great job but now I want to get started with something real simple and I'm gonna start back when I was in third grade our teacher wrote these for now I got to put this on here just give me one second screen here yes and so what I want to do is show you what happened to me is I was in third grade our teacher wrote this problem on the board we had already learned how to add up single digits and we were learning carrying with two-digit numbers and she showed everybody how you have to go start at the seven in the two is nine one more is 10 3 more is 13 write down the three carry the one one two three four five and you add it up and there's your answer and the only problem was I wasn't paying attention that day I sat next to my best friend in class and we'd always talked about baseball we were on the same team so we really didn't focus much on this and my teacher caught me not paying attention so she picked me to come up to the board to do this problem and I always used these four numbers to start my show because they're seared in my brain because of the anxiety that I felt as I was walking up to the board realizing that I was busted and I didn't know what to do I didn't know where to start I didn't know what the carry was and so I walked up to the board and out of fear or survival I'm not sure why my brain was like okay I learned how to read left to right so I must have to do my math left to right so I started over here in the tens column and then worked that way so here's how I did and see if it makes sense to you this is a 10 10 10 10 all I did was keep a running total going down the columns backwards so watch this 10 plus 10 is 20 plus 10 more is 30 10 more is 40 now we can stop right there and you learned estimation so this helps with estimation but let's keep going we're at 40 40 plus seven is forty seven plus two is 49 plus one is 50 plus three is fifty three and that's the answer 53 and I wrote that down without a carry and my teacher said well you're right Scott but where's your carry and I said I don't know what you're talking about what's a carry and she said well let's try another one so you guys try this one out this was the next one she gave me I always use this one two all right just try it on your own first then we'll do it together just I'll give you a couple seconds here always starting on the left you learn estimation number sense place value it's amazing okay I'm sure some of you already got the answer let's try it so this goes 20 plus 20 which is 40 20 more is 60 10 were 70 so estimation 70 something or higher 70 plus 6 is 76 plus 3 is 79 plus 1 is 80 plus 8 is 88 so I promise you you might have never seen that before in your life but this is as simple as it gets let's try one together everybody do this on your own race the people you're watching the show with right now just shout out the answer when you get it Kevin over here you yet nope not even close that was totally I don't even think you're looking at the numbers so here's how it works so let's try it together we got 30 50 60 70 70 7 79 80 85 the answer is 85 I hope you got that right and now I just wanted to break the ice with this simple thing because I discovered this by accident when I was in third grade but what happened was it made me question everything I learned the rest of my life in fourth grade I had a tough time with my math teacher he was my way or the highway and fifth grade I got very lucky I had a teacher named mr. Potter and mr. Potter goes Scott I've already heard about you he goes if you figure something out in my class you bring it to me and that's why I can prove that it works algebraically and it's not just a trick then I'll let you teach it to the rest of the class so I'm just going to give you one example I you know I cover everything from addition to algebra and all my programs today we're going to just do a couple of things but it's funny when you get into memorization everybody memorizes up to 10 times 10 some people all the way up to 12 times 12 but really that's about it if you ask somebody thirteen times fourteen nobody has the answer so we all quit at ten but to me I couldn't believe we were stopping at ten because 11 seemed like this amazing number watch this when you multiply numbers times eleven there's a simple pattern you know we could do it the way you normally do it you're going to do 4 times 1 is 4 2 times 1 is 2 put the 0 then you got to you know do it this way and you know you end up with 240 and 24 and all that you got to add them all together it's a lot of work but watch how easy this is now anytime you have to multiply a number times an 11 just go like this drop the back number here drop the front number here and now just add these two together 2 plus 4 is 6 and drop that in the middle and there's your answer all right let's try another one 35 times 11 first step is you drop the numbers down from the top on to the ends and now three plus five is eight so 385 all right you should be able to do this pretty easily in your head so let's just practice one let's do 33 times 11 everybody try it in your head then I'll write it down so you can visualize it a lot of people are very visual when it comes to math so 33 times 11 you're gonna have a 3 here a 3 here and 6 goes in the middle this works all the time three-digit numbers for digit numbers there's a carrying process in here if you want to try it but if your kids love this just have them try bigger and bigger numbers and they'll discover all these patterns and figure out how it works instead of just making them memorize how it works what I try to teach people to do is how to discover numbers not memorize numbers so this is my biggest concern is uh it seems like it's become socially accepted to be bad at math and we all carry one of these in our pocket now we all have a calculator take a look at the calculator for a second you take it for granted how many numbers are on a calculator some of you probably said 9 10 I've heard a Levin 12 I've heard 6 it's crazy all the different answers when I visit schools and stuff but it's really funny as is look at this calculator this is the most powerful machine now we have them on our phones in our pockets and everything but this at one time was a big thing took a lot of space to crunch numbers and now it's down to this today this show I'm speaking to you in English when you speak English you have to use the alphabet ABCD and make words and sentences and all that stuff well the human calculator and I'm speaking the language of numbers I use the alphabet of numbers which are these ten digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 there's no 10 on a calculator yet we've all been brought up to think like this we have 10 fingers we've all there to go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and that's cool if you need to count your fingers but if you want to think like a calculator you have to count 0 because when you turn on a calculator it always starts at 0 so you have to count 0 so really numbers work like this we have 10 fingers and there's 10 digits and it goes like this 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 it's really 0 through 9 and I can't explain why the world is wired 1 through 10 but all I can tell you is is when you start thinking about numbers 0 through 9 everything changes it makes numbers so much easier all these patterns start jumping out of the bigger numbers you can see them and so what I want to do is just introduce you to this language of numbers here's the 10 digits and there's all kinds of different stories about how these numbers got their shapes when I was a kid I asked my third-grade teacher how do the numbers get their shapes who picked the shapes and she said I don't know we asked other teachers they didn't know and so I sort of made it my mission to find out why numbers look like they do and if you go online now you can find these beautiful graphs that'll show you how they evolve through the years but for helping kids connect with numbers one of the cool ways I saw that numbers maybe came about which isn't probably true but it's a great way to help the kids with numbers is that these shapes were made for to be able to communicate to you the value of each shape by one simple thing here's how zero started zero as a circle the secret is is to count the corners of each shape so I'm going to show you how they originally look to make this happen but now you can see why zero is a circle because they wanted to communicate that this had a value of zero so there are zero corners the next number one started out like this it had a little thing right there that's one angle so everybody knew when they looked at that shape that value had a shape and a value of one the number two started out like our letters because this shape has two corners two angles so everybody knew that was 2 the number 3 started out like this it gives you 1 2 3 angles there's your 3 and the number 4 looked a little different it looked like that and this gives you one up there's 1 2 3 and then for the outside angle and then the number 5 it looked almost the same it just has a little tail on it like that that gives you 1 2 3 4 5 angles the numbers 6 start it out like this they just boxed it up that gives you one two three four five six corners six angles all right seven we're lazy we draw like that but somebody really smart came up with this a long time ago and now you have one two three four five six seven angles and you think eight would be tough but I ain't it's actually very easy they just use this hourglass symbol so you've got one two three four five six seven eight with the outside angles and then nine they actually call this one the ugly duckling but it got the job done it looked like that you've got one two three four five six seven eight nine so there you go it's really zero through nine and now you know why numbers look like they do and you know 10 is not a digit 10 is the number that uses a 1 and a 0 so it's really 0 through 9 and when you turn on a calculator it always starts at 0 if it started at any other number you wouldn't get the right answer so 0 is the power number when it comes to a calculator but now if I want to show you how to make numbers add up to 9 because the secret to numbers is everything goes back to 9 which I'll share with you in a minute but a lot of you have just memorized your math facts just say the answer out loud as fast you can what's 7 plus 7 I'm sure everybody yelled 14 within a half a second how are you getting that answer so quickly were you counting your fingers were you calculating something or did you just memorize that that's what we do in our schools our kids the parents and the teachers just want to make sure the kids have the answer is the easiest way to get that is just have the kids memorize their math facts at the beginning of school which really doesn't serve a good purpose it's a it's a bad way to get started I think so today I'm gonna introduce you to you what I call chapter zero I believe it's the missing chapter in arithmetic and if students around the world would learn this chapter first it would make the job easier for our teachers and our parents and for everybody to make sense out of arithmetic and move on to higher maths and get into science technology engineering arts and math so okay so before we get into adding or any secrets I got to show you a simple pattern to help you make you realize how simple 9 is if you're not good at adding just do this start writing your digits zero one two three four and now I'll keep going underneath five six seven eight nine and look what happened you can see that 0 plus 9 is 9 1 plus 8 9 2 plus 7 9 3 plus 6 9 and 4 plus 5 9 those are all the combinations to make 9 and so after you write this down and you get your students to go through this what I do is a quiz is I'll just say one of the digits and make them say the other number that makes both of them add up to 9 so if I say 4 they have to say 5 if I say 7 they have to say 2 but now this is a very simple way to know you're addition facts for the number 9 because that's what it all comes down to so I've been serving as the human calculator traveling the world for 30 years and for a long time it was just about me me me and what I could do and look what I can do and then I just leave you know I never really shared much and I invented a new calendar to save us from y2k in 1999 and it was supposed to come out on 9 999 I was really excited I thought that was the beginning of y2k and it was supposed to be in a newspaper story here in Arizona and it didn't come out and the guy called me and said hey we're gonna put it in next week's paper instead and I said hey next week is it 9 9 99 this is a once in a lifetime date and he goes oh I didn't even notice that so I was all bummed out and I was on the golf course with Alice Cooper that day we were playing golf and by chance on the 18th green that day Alice said to me hey 18 I wrote a song called 18 one and eight adds up to nine how come eighteen adds up to nine and I said Alice that's easy any number times nine the answer adds up to nine if you do three times nine you get 27 2 + 7 is 9 six times nine you get fifty four five and four is nine if you do 16 times 9 you get 144 one four and four is nine he goes okay I don't care and so I was just thinking about this so I'm driving home from golf I'm like why is that and I got home and I looked at my calendar thirteen month calendar I tell you about that at the end of the show but for some reason I just looked at the number thirteen and this is on nine nine ninety nine at nine o'clock in the morning just after nine and for some reason I looked at thirteen I said hey one plus three is four thirteen minus four is nine and I just started laughing out loud like that was just a strangest coincidence to me and I didn't think much of a first second but then I walked by my microwave and I saw the number eleven and I just reflexively went alright one plus one is two eleven minus two is nine and I started freaking out I was like what is this how could my first thought to be honest with you wise Here I am the human calculator traveled the world performing I thought that I had missed one day in fourth grade when they taught this it's so simple you're gonna see here a second I thought that I just missed that day and nobody ever shared it with me and so I did we moved a lot when I was a kid so I had a lot of reasons to think I just missed it so I started calling my math friends to say what is this what is it's called but here's how it works let's start at the simplest number 10 first number after 9 all you do is add up all the digits in that number and write that total underneath so 1 plus 0 is 1 put the total underneath and subtract 10 minus 1 is 9 let's try a couple random ones 15 1 plus 5 add them together you get 6 15 minus 6 is 9 let's try 19 1 plus 9 is 10 19 minus 10 is 9 that works up to 19 but watch what happens over 19 let's do 20 here's 20 first step add the two digits together 2 plus 0 is 2 put the total underneath and subtract 20 minus 2 is 18 and look at your answer 18 1 plus 8 is 9 your answer will always add up to 9 the next time you're driving and you see a speed limit sign you're gonna see 55 add them together 5 + 5 gives you 10 put the total underneath and subtract 55 minus 10 45 a look at the answer 45 4 plus 5 is 9 so I challenge all of you watching today write down your age I'm sure a lot of you have pencil and paper if you're really good with numbers or just confident just do it in your head but think of your age or write down your age all right so let me do it - I am I think I'm 37 and different number base so anyway so those 37 let's say that all right so you write down your age and now you add those two numbers together 3 plus 7 is 10 you take that away and you get 27 and look at the answer 2 plus 7 is 9 this should have worked for every one of you this doesn't just work for two-digit numbers it works for three-digit numbers 4 digit 10 digit 100 digit to infinity just to show you let's just do one more let's do 123 one plus two plus three you got to add them all together and you get 6 123 minus 6 is 117 look at that answer 1 1 7 1 plus 1 plus 7 is 9 this works for every number in the universe I don't know why we're not teaching this in schools but there's two things I want to share with you one I believe this is a simple exercise that will train all of our brains for basic number of facts instead of memorizing all these numbers this is a simple exercise that works for every number and will allow you to wire numbers into your brain but secondly it's a diagnostic if you're a parent and you're in the car and your kids are in the backseat and you go by a sign that says 55 if your kids can't say to you dad mom 5 + 5 is 10 you got problems alright because they have even memorized it right but so now that's simplon step very simple right next step is they have to add them together and put the total underneath right so they got to place that number there that's not too difficult now they have to subtract 55 minus 10 is 45 and now they have to add up their answers so between those steps you will be able to see the gaps in your child's knowledge of numbers and arithmetic if they can't do 77 because they don't know 7 and 7 is 14 or if they can't subtract it it just gives you all kinds of insight for teachers and parents to help your kids tune into this language of numbers and I promise you if all we did was make sure every nine-year-old kid on the planet Earth could do this when they're nine years old that whole year every number they see whether it's a sporting event or sign a license plate whatever will add up and go back to their age the number nine it will make them feel like every numbers their friend and by the time they wake up at ten years old they'll be fluent in the language of numbers and basic arithmetic and now we can teach these kids higher math algebra and homework but right now a lot of kids are struggling because they just have to memorize their math facts and that doesn't give them a good foundation for number sense or learning anymore about arithmetic and that's why we lose so many kids by the time they get to algebra and so my mission is to reach every student on the planet Earth before they're nine years old and share this with them so I got to show you what happened though look at this I was really bored that day I had figured out the zero through nine thing and I'm writing stuff down trying to figure it out and so I just did this check out this picture I was writing zero through nine over and over again and this thing popped out of my brain just focus on the numbers on the right zero one two see the red numbers on the right there they go zero through nine zero through nine zero through nine zero three nine just look at the red numbers now look at the red numbers the other way there's all the zeros all the ones all the twos all the way to the nines but now look at the blue numbers and the blue numbers go the other way zero one two three four five six seven eight nine zero through nine zero through nine zero all the way across and now look at the blue numbers going the other way there's all your zeros your ones your twos threes fours five six seven eight nine so this is just a number grid that's zero through nine twice in two directions and it creates this number grid that goes from double zero to 99 and I was staring at that thing and I saw all these patterns so I just started scribbling stuff I've created a coloring book you can get more information at my website there's ten chapters we won't go through them all today I'm going to be doing that in a couple weeks so what I want you to do is just watch what happens when all you do is assign a color for each digit zero through nine this first chapter chapter zero in this book this coloring book asks you to find all the zeros and color them in in that color so you can see all those zeros end up here but it's also important to realize all the areas that aren't colored in they don't have a zero anywhere here so this is also a lesson the next page they have to find all the ones and hopefully you'll start to see a pattern here about how numbers reveal themselves in this number grid you can start to see a plus sign or a cross revealed by each number at its double digit there's 20 to look at 33 all the threes and you can see all the 30s and all the threes here's all the 40s in the 4s and you can see that plus sign real big now 50s and fives all the way to 90s and nines and then the last page of this chapter you have to color them all in together on this page so you got to find all the zeros find all the ones individually and color it in this is a great way to prove that you have mastered this chapter there's eight more chapters after this but I'm just going to show you just a tiny bit of the next one because it really blew me away I found it by you know by lucky again or just by chance but this chapter teaches all your addition facts so instead of memorizing all that look how easy this is on this number grid this page asks the kids to find all the numbers on this grid whose two digits add up to zero the only one that works is double zero zero plus zero that's the end of that page the next page you have to find all the numbers on the grid whose two digits add up to 1 1 in 10 0 plus 1 and 1 plus 0 now you've got to find all the numbers that add up to 2 to 11 and 20 because 0 plus 2 1 plus 1 2 plus 0 here's all the numbers that add up to 3 and you can see the pattern all the combinations for the fours here's your fives and this goes all the way watch what happens this will go to 9 just to show you how beautiful it is 0 and 9 1 & 8 all the way right through the middle but it keeps going here's all your facts 4 10 1 plus 9 2 plus 8 3 plus 7 all the way across here's all the numbers for 11 12 all the way down to 18 so and then they have to do it all together and it really captures the cross so this coloring book and my 9 pattern are what I'm trying to get out to share with everybody to create a numerate person and with all of our teachers out there have been training for years the biggest challenge to get our kids that just don't understand numbers and to start there is a really tough place to start and so if we get all of our students to understand this 0 through 9 and goes back to nine and they get through this coloring book and they're gonna learn all the combinations of everything from addition subtraction division multiplication and difference is this will revolutionize as a relationship that children have with numbers with the amount of confidence they have and so my foundation is called I count Foundation I want kids to learn how to count like me zero through nine but I believe when you help children overcome their fear of numbers and arithmetic it increases their self-esteem that's why it's called I count Foundation and we're hosting the national counting be you might have never heard of that I'm sure you know about the National Spelling Bee but accounting B is a little bit different and here's how it works is we're gonna do one right now no pressure okay everybody try this one on your own first round of the counting B is everybody has to count by 3 for 15 seconds and we see how many answers you get and that's your score then you have to count by 4 5 6 you go as high as you can 15 seconds in each round and you add up your score but the one thing is that nobody starts at zero so the first round if you get up on stage and you have to count by 3 you're gonna get a random starting number so let's say it's your turn you have to start at 7 and count by 3 ready go so they'd have to say 10 13 16 19 22 25 28 and you'd be surprised some kids can go really fast at this we just had the Arizona County betta test it all out and we had students getting over 30 answers in 15 seconds so you can see how easy this is so for teachers to end students and parents to do this County B we're gonna have categories for students in all ages we're gonna have a category for teachers we're looking for the fastest number-crunching teacher in america and around the world we're gonna do a international accounting b and we also have a division for parents we want to see what parent out there can pop up I hope it's a grandma from a farm somewhere that just you know who's really good at numbers who knows who it's gonna be it could be anybody at one school we had the county being a janitor one the county B actually beat the teachers and the students so that was pretty cool so you never know who's gonna do it and so that's what I wanted to get across to you numerically it was just to show you that numbers aren't scary numbers are this amazing language which the whole world is wired in and if you shut out from that you're missing a lot of stuff and so for the sake of stem and steam science technology engineering and math and also a should be in there steam for arts because I use art to help kids learn math I really think we can make a big difference here I really think we could change our future if more kids would enjoy science and math so obviously because I'm in this world of numbers I see things that maybe some people don't so I just want to share one or two things with you I mentioned to you earlier about a calendar that I invented a 13-month calendar this is it it's called the human calculator calendar you can download it for free at my website the human calculator com it's got 13 months there's the zero month and then one through twelve lined up like a clock - pretty interesting layout and you can read about that more but what I wanted to share with you I just got to take a minute and vent about this calendar that we're using because it's the Roman calendar it's been around for 2,000 years how many days are in a year 365 on our calendar we have 12 months right so we have 12 months and some ones have 28 days 29 days 30 days 31 days nobody knows the pattern it's really tough to keep track you can't calculate dates how far is it from July 4th to Christmas how many days until my birthday this calendar we're using really shuts our brain down from getting into the world of time and so that's why I ended up inventing this 13 month calendar but before I show you how simple my calendar is I want to show you how confusing your calendar is today's date is March there's a it's in March the month of March does anybody know what the word March even means or February some people can't even say it or spell it January is a 2-headed Norse god back it's looking into the past in the future April May June Norse gods July is named after Julius Caesar August is named after Augustus Caesar September is a Latin word which means seven but September is our ninth month acht means eight but October is our tenth month no means nine but November's our eleventh month and Dec means ten but summers our twelfth month I don't know how we made it this far we're in 2020 we've got a we got to fix this before y3k calves can you do something about that okay so so anyway so I'm just saying your calendars a mess and now here's what I have to do to figure it out I'm a human calendar so you can tell me a date and I could figure out what day it was so keV give me oh let's use your birthday okay pick a date okay so the six 2258 so now I can calculate what day that was that was a Sunday but now there's an algorithm figuring that out here's what I have to do when I got out of the Air Force in 1988 or no yeah I was 88 Wow a long time ago um I was at the palm beach library and I found this little book it was like a hundred years old and the guy said there's a pattern in the calendar and you can figure out what day of the week any date is on and because I was already good at crunching numbers I was like ah right I got to try this and so I sat down and worked this out and wired it in a way that I could do it in my head so here's the formula you have to take the year plus the year divided by four plus the date plus the month and then divide all that by seven and the remainder tells you what day of the week it is that is the only way you can figure out what day of the week it is on this Roman calendar we've been using for 2,000 years unless if you call hallmark they'll tell you what day it is but other than that you got to figure it out so now here's how it works so let's do the year is 58 58 divided by 4 is 14 and a half so just use 14 you know because the next leap here hasn't occurred the date is the 22nd and the month is June the month of June has a value of May June is for July and 6 right so June is 4 and now you're going to add all those together and divide it by 7 so if you add up 58 plus 14 is 72 plus 22 is 94 plus 4 is 98 you get a total of 98 and if you divide 98 by 7 there the answer is 14 remainder 0 and that's all I need to know is the remainder is zero if the remainder is 0 it's a Sunday remainder is 1 it's a Monday 2 is Tuesday and so on and so you can give me any date in history and I can calculate what day the week that was on in less than a second usually so cap giving one more 20th century 295 that was a Saturday 12 295 you can google it and send in your birthday if you want I'll do some at the end all right so this calendar makes no sense mathematically there's no patterns to it and so when I discovered this new calendar I started realizing all these things there's 365 days in a year I was visiting a school in Paradise Valley Arizona for a friend of mine her child was in 3rd grade and I was doing the show and at the end of the show one of the kids asked me to do my Guinness World Record and to count by the number 28 so I was just messing around I went 2856 84 112 140 168 196 224 250 to 280 308 336 364 and I kept going but I heard myself say 364 9 it's like wow that's almost a year so you're saying 13 times 28 is 364 we could have a calendar that has 28 days and every month 28 days is four times seven that's a perfect four week month every month would be the same that means the first would always be a Monday the second would always be a Tuesday the fifth would always be a Friday our pay days would always fall in the same day of the week every month would have the same number of days for weeks you could calculate how many dates are between days and so I've been working on this for years I put I've launched in 2000 and it still hasn't caught on so that's my next goal but anyway you can download it for free and my website to human calculator comm oh that was a Saturday May 30th it's good right easy one okay so if you want to learn how to calculate what day of the week at Dana's on you can get one of my programs for that but more importantly I've invented a better calendar so here's how it works there's 13 months 28 days every month that's 364 but I'm missing one day and it took me that night I figured it out was to invent the zero day so there are 13 months but they're numbered 0 through 12 there's a zero month on one month all the way to a 12 month so there's 13 months 0 through 12 every month that's 28 days except the zero month starts on the zero day so January 1st is zero zero and then we go into 13 and every month would be the exact same paycheck school schedules everything it would be so much easier and from a financial analytical perspective every quarter would begin and end on the same day of the week every quarter would have exactly 91 days that's not the case now just so you know for you fiscals just so you know January February March 31 28 31 is 90 days the first quarter has 90 days April May June is 31 April's 30 May's 31 June 30 so that's 91 days and then July August September 31 31 30 that's got 92 days and then October November December is thirty one thirty thirty one which has 92 days so you can see this first half is 181 in the second half is 184 there's three days here and that's where all these people are making all the money the banks are hanging on all that money I'm just kidding but there's a mistake here it needs to be fixed we need to level the playing field and make it where all of us are getting our money you don't get those weird paychecks during the weekend you gotta have to wait till Monday so you can download this calendar for free it's just a fun simple way to think about time and you don't have to calculate all these little fractions to figure out what day the weekend is as soon as you're the first you know it's a Monday all right so I'm a bit of a calendar buff keV can I'm gonna show them one more calendar all right okay so let me take you to one more calendar right here this is a one-page calendar I don't know if you've ever seen one before I put this out last year if you're interested in 2020 you can email me and I'll send you a copy of the 2020 we'll have it on the website later this week but here's how it works a calendar normally has 12 pages one page for each month here is a one-page calendar you can fit all three hundred sixty five or six days on one page so here's how it works I want everybody to try your birthday first this is last year this calendar is for only 2019 all right so think about your birthday last year everybody you see how the months are arranged up here they're a little different than you're used to find your month of birth up on the top find the number of your birthday on the left and where they intersect will tell you what day of the week it is so like Christmas here's December here's the 25th that was on a Wednesday so everybody find your birth month and your birthday and where they intersect will tell you what day of the week it is and I just put this out for fun it's more of a novelty than anything but I can create it for any year so if you were going to create it for your birth or the year you're born or an anniversary or something like that just somebody an email and I'll throw that together it's a lot of fun for me I really obviously have some free time okay now keV is there anything you want me to go over specifically anything that I didn't touch on yet okay okay good all right so we can go over a couple do we have can I just do a couple more things all right so uh there's a simple multiplication trick I want to share with you a lot of people don't do multiplication two-digit big numbers but I just want to show you something that happens this is called complementary multiplication so if you have to do 96 times 93 that's a lot of work and I'm sure you all remember how you had to do all that stuff I just for me this is just to show you the beauty and symmetry of numbers all right so instead of doing all that stuff you used to do just off to the right right how far away each one of those numbers is from 100 so 96 is far away from 193 is 7 away from 100 and now to get the answer here's all you do is just subtract diagonally either way if you do 93 minus 4 or 96 minus 7 you get 89 and that's the first two digits and the answer to get the last two just multiply these two numbers out on the left 4 times 7 is 28 and there's your answer 8900 28 so when when I was learning math and we were doing multiplication there was only one way with the right to left with the carry I have discovered six ways how to multiply numbers together and all of them were pretty much more efficient than the way that we were taught when we were kids growing up and so my mission is to get these ideas out there just to show kids that numbers and arithmetic are can be creative and fun and it's more about discovering numbers and patterns then then just memorizing them okay yeah so let's do that thanks keV thanks for let me do that next thing is a lot of kids you know we need to make change even in today's world we're still having to make change and if I said to you if you have a dollar bill and you're spending 67 cents what's the change a lot of you probably can't do it you don't know how to approach it or you don't do subtraction well but there's a simple way to do this here's how we're taught you got a dollar and you want to spend sixty seven cents yet subtract you got to borrow and all this stuff and you end up with thirty three at the end but there's a much easier way instead of using a dollar you know I'm all about the number nine and so use the number nine to your advantage out of 100 pennies out of that dollar take one penny and put it in your pocket now you got 99 cents and you can make it happen very easily watch this to figure out change now you just have to make everything add up to nine so if you're working on sixty-seven cents just put the numbers underneath that make all those numbers add up to nine so three is here to go six nine and then a two here seven a night and then you add the magic penny back and you get your answer 33 right there okay so let's try another one let's say you've got to make change for 46 cents all right take a second figure out what the change is how you would have done it now how you can do it here because all I have to do is put a 1 here keV 5 3 plus the penny is 54 so let's say you're splurging today you're gonna go to get some fast food you're gonna buy a meal and it cost six dollars and 28 cents so instead of a 10 dollar bill take a penny away and now you've got $9.99 and your lunch is 6 dollars and 28 cents so here's how it works you just got to make them all add up tonight you can start on the left because it doesn't matter 6 & 3 2 & 7 8 & 1 and there's your answer plus the penny 372 this is a very simple way to make change but a lot of people just don't seem to do it now okay I can already tell what's happening I can feel it everybody that's watching this today is going what's the big deal about the number 9 who cares if every number goes back to 9 that's just a cute trick or a pattern that is not the case there's a very powerful reason for this pattern everybody right now watching if I ask you one plus one I know you're gonna say it's 2 but the only way you've got that answer is you either memorized it or you counted some objects that's really the only way if I ask you 6 plus 6 you say 12 you either memorized it you added some fingers together but there's really no other strategy to check your math if you're right or wrong and so the reason the nine pattern is a big deal is this watch what happens look at the number eleven the number eleven is designed to teach us one plus one that's why there's a 1 and a 1 you've memorized it's 2 you've counted it to you you're used to that it's 2 but now you can logically check it plug it in put the 2 here 11 minus 2 you'll get 9 if you get 9 everything is fine so watch what happens if you make a mistake let's say you're kids having a long day you're at 11 1 plus 1 they think it's 3 let's plug it in 11 minus 3 is 8 it's not 9 that means that that is the wrong answer the only answer that will work to make it go to 9 is right there so watch how powerful this is let's do 2 plus 2 so you've started 22 you've memorized it's 4 you've counted it's 4 but now you can check it logically you think it's 4 let's plug it in 22 minus 4 is 18 look at your answer does your answer add up to 9 then everything is fine this is a simple exercise that will totally give your student or yourself a chance to tune into numbers in a way you never have and so all I ask is everybody that learns this from me is I I just ask you to pick one person in your life that's worse at math than you and share this with them and I think you'll see when they get it how much of a difference it will make in their lives I see it every day when I visit schools and so please share this with me if you're interested in the national counting be the counting be website the county be calm you can register for free put in your scores we're going to invite the fastest kids from across America I want to invite I want to thank Kevin Hickey and the team at prevalent for having me today because this is a weird time in our in our history and I just wanted to do what I could to help because I feel like if all the teachers and parents out there spent the next couple weeks making sure every kid in America I knew how to do this thing where everything goes back to 9:00 when we all go back to school in a few months all the teachers are going to be surprised that these kids do adding and subtracting and all these numbers in their head now we're gonna take off and really do a lot with Stemmons team okay and I don't know if you noticed this or not but I don't believe in coincidences but if you check out the name of the company that had me today prevalent and Kevin's a bit of dear friend of mine for 30 years there's no coincidence but if you count how many letters in the name one two three four five six seven eight nine so we're all here today for a purpose I hope you'll share this message with everybody you know if you'd like me to come visit your school or do a corporate event or teacher training just go to my website to human calculator comm thank everybody for tuning in today stay safe god bless you all thank you

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