Re-Learning Math with Scott Flansburg, the Human Calculator (Part 2)

but the roman calendar makes no sense we start the year on January 1st can anybody tell me why why do we start the year on January 1st there's no reason there's nothing - it has no natural thing to it that nature doesn't say hey it's December 31st it's a mechanical clock telling us that it's a man-made clock so I started questioning everything about time how long is a year 365 this year 366 leap year but 365 normally why are there 365 days in a year that's right that's all it takes the earth to go around the Sun 365 days that's why we're doing that alright we had nothing to do with that that was a natural order how long is a month 28 29 30 31 unbelievable that we use this word month used to mean month month is based off of a lunar cycle moon cycle but now we got 28 29 30 31 nobody knows what day Christmas is what your birthday is going to be unbelievable it's like getting a curve ball every day when you wake up you got to check with hallmark to see what day it is it's a calendar that literally shuts our brain down from understanding time why do we call September September do you know what set means seven but September is our ninth month octene eight like octopus but October is our tenth month no means nine but November is the eleventh month Dec means 10 but December is the 12th month the names don't even mean what they say when you talk about September 11th 9/11 when you say September 11th you're saying 7-eleven like a store but it's really you know it's nice so the words we choose to use don't even mean what they say there's for you those either in finances how many there's the first six months of the year have 181 days the second half has 184 there's three extra days in the second half of the year that has to impact financials but yet we don't reflect it there's just sort of this gap so if you get paid on the 15th every month and if sometimes the 15th falls on the weekend you don't get paid till after the weekend who's making all that interest I call that the floating penny there's this magic penny that somebody's in charge of that we aren't and so my goal is well it wasn't a goal but I was visiting your school in Phoenix Arizona and just as a favor to a friend and you never know what day something's going to happen it was 1999 the actual date was five 599's May 5th Cinco DeMayo I visited school and little girl asked me to count by the number twenty eight to do my world record I got 28 56 84 112 141 68 196 2 - 4 - 5 - 2 0 through 83 3 6 3 64 I heard myself they say 364 I was like wait a minute 1328 its 364 why are we using that calendar 13 months of 28 days what we're missing a day so I was like what are we going to do about that right well I get home that day Cinco DeMayo 99 and I'm looking at this number 13 times 28 13 once 28 is only 364 and then it hit me we need to count zero so I added a zero day the first day of the year is zero and then there's 13 months with 28 days in each month our human bodies are 1328 Time Machine the human body has 13 major joints you've got a shoulder oh is this an elbow or something a wrist right that's three got three more here and then got hip knee ankle hip knee ankle that's six there that's 12 and your spine it's 13 your body has 13 major joints and all of our bodies work off of a thing called a biorhythm which is a 28-day cycle but our calendar disguises all these patterns we can't see the lunar cycle phases we can't tense our own patterns we can't see our financial patterns the calendar disguises all those things and so I don't know why but at that summer of 99 I decided to create the human calendar it's a 13 month calendar every month has 28 days 28 a perfect number it's four weeks if we had a 28-day calendar every month that's the numbers would be the same day of the week every month the first would always be a Monday second would always be a Tuesday the 28th will always be a Sunday every number would be the same day of the week every month of every year sucks for your birthday but other than that it's good for finances it's good for patterns it's good for all that stuff so I just this calendar and I was so excited I took all summer of 99 ever at every book about calendars I could find Chinese Maya and all these different calendars and I was like why do we do the things we do who picked how long a week is where did the week come from it's four quarters of the lunar cycle where do we pick the day who picked 24 picked the day what day is the earth spinning one day 24 hours we didn't come up with that what did we come up with we came up with a second how long is one second who picked that who's in charge of that why isn't it that long why isn't it that long who picked how long a second is because the whole leap day thing happens because the time measurements we choose to use don't match up to the natural cycles of Earth in the space around us so why did we choose a second that doesn't add up to anything if we want to fix the leap here we could change the second we changed it just 70 years ago the United States changed how long a second was it went from a basic atom to a cesium atom which altered you know had to be to do with the nuclear and all these different clocks they were making at the time but we changed how long a second was we could do that again and eliminate the whole leap year so I've invented this calendar the human calendar and I was so excited I was going to save us from y2k remember y2k I thought I thought that was it you know December 31st 99 we're going down man these computers are going to crash people going to be mad at each other and it's all it's going to get ugly and for some reason on 9 999 the first day of y2k I used to be a computer programmer so I I thought all the nines would scare the computers into thinking it was the end of the world so 99.99 so I asked the arizona newspaper to do a story that day on my new calendar called the human calendar to save us from y2k so excited i had an interview set up biggest newspaper Arizona so I booked a tea time with my best friend his name's Alice Cooper rock-and-roller guy you guys some of you probably know who he is and we've been playing golf for about 20 years I said hey let's go play the course this morning before I go do all this stuff and we get there 6:30 in the morning and my assistant calls and says hey Scott the newspaper did not print the story about your calendar I was so distraught because you know you only get a day like this once in a lifetime $99.99 and the newspaper guy says oh we decided to wait till next week and fit better in the paper I was like you missed 99.99 you know the whole reason we were doing this I was so distraught Alice says to me he runs our Bible study every Wednesday morning so he says to me go Scott don't worry everything happens for a reason I was like I hate when people say that we get to the 18th hole we're in Phoenix Arizona 18th hole it is 9 a.m. and it's in Phoenix Arizona and we get to the 18th green and Alice said to me hey Scott today's 99.99 I wrote a song called 18 1 plus 8 is 9 today's 9 9 99 how come 18 adds up to 9 I was like oh that's a great question Alice that's easy though everything times 9 the answer will add up to 9 like 3 times 9 is 27 4 times 9 36 5 times 1945 every answer times 9 that answer adds up to 9 Alice goes okay I don't care and I'm driving home and I'm thinking about it and and it hit me I looked at my calendar it's a 13-month calendar and for some reason my brain goes one plus three is four thirteen minus four is nine and I just started laughing out loud like what a coincidence to notice that if you take the number thirteen add up its digits and put the sum underneath that the answer will be nine on nine nine ninety nine I was like that is such a weird coincidence in a minute later I'm walking by my microwave and I see the number eleven and my brain goes one and one is two eleven minus two it's not as like what is going on what's happening here 10 1 plus 0 is 1 10 minus 1 is 9 uh 14 1 plus 4 is 5 14 minus 5 is 9:17 1 plus 7 is 8 17 minus 8 is 9 19 1 plus 9 is 10 19 minus 9 is 10 is like what is going on everything goes back to 9 I thought it was a practical joke somehow somebody messing with me and then I realized that it worked for all these numbers I was like I'm the human calculator in the Guinness Book of World Records and I don't know that all numbers go back to 9 every kid on the planet must notice I moved a lot when I was a kid we we had tough times and moved like 20 times before I was 16 so I figured maybe I just missed this cycle in school missed a class maybe I was sick that day that they taught this I didn't know how what to said I know who to talk to I finally started calling some friends and said hey everybody just for fun think of your age add the two digits together now take that total and subtract it from your age and you should get a number that adds up to 9 did it work for you it works for every number some of you watching you as you were trying to do that your eyes glazed over so let me show you a simple way to make 9 come alive for you especially for the little kids if you have kids in your life this is an easy way to get them to think about 9 to make numbers add up tonight just start writing numbers like this 0 1 2 3 4 and I'll keep going underneath backwards 5 6 7 8 9 you see the pattern what 0 plus 9 1 plus 8 2 plus 7 3 + 6 + 4 + 5 okay so now you can make every number go back to 9 alright so let's try some numbers and see how you do let's do the number 20 so we added up 2 plus 0 is 220 minus 2 is 18 the answer 1 plus a it is nine standing number all out 79 7 plus 9 is 16 79 take away 16 is 63 6 plus 3 is 9 say a three-digit number 3 what up 374 374 3 plus 7 is 10 plus 4 is 14 write down the total 374 minus 14 is 363 6 + 0 is none this works to infinity nobody ever noticed it I don't know why but it really freaked me out for quite a while I don't know what to make out of it I took two years traveling the world visiting schools all over the world saying hey what is this called who discovered it what century was it in what purpose does it serve couldn't get any answers got invited to be a speaker at the National math teacher convention in America did this show them how all the numbers go back to nine I turned around said how many of you teachers knew that before you walked in the room today and not one teacher raised their hand and it made me realize that maybe I've run into something here but it took me two years to figure it out and I'll share with you the purpose that it serves I was on tour in Australia and a guy named Adam Spencer is a well-known media guy down there big radio show in Australia Sydney Australia he's also a math guy and I'm doing an interview on his show right before I go to the airport to fly back to the United States at the end of the tour and he hands me his book as a gift he wrote a book all about the numbers one through a hundred I was like Adam this is fantastic I said if I got one big complaint you forgot the most important number zero he forgot zero zero doesn't mean it I was like are you offended I was offended on the air almost to fisticuffs and we talked about zero counting not counting I was like it counts I'm flying home that night I'm at 35,000 feet in the middle of the ocean somewhere and it hit me that there's a purpose for this pattern play along what's one plus one can any of you please prove to me that one plus one is to anybody yeah go ahead very good okay so she took an object another object put them together since she's got two objects therefore one and one is two everybody agrees with that right but now when you got to do 17 plus 33 unless you're an alien you don't have enough fingers on your hands to do this to count by checking physically checking all right so other than physically checking and Counting things how can you prove to me one plus one is two other than punching it in a calculator or asking a math teacher to check it for you how could you prove to me one plus one is two yeah you can add by one write increased by one like the number line that's a good idea okay what else there's no answer we don't have any that's why we make our kids memorize their math 1 + 1 is 2 7 + 7 is 14 9 to 9 is 18 but now you all know the secret to number so I can share with you the purpose of this pattern look at the number 11 the number 11 has a pattern hidden in it to teach your brain 1+1 there's a 1 and a 1 in this number right you all have memorized 1 plus 1 is 2 let's plug it in what's 11 minus 2 if you get 9 everything's fine if you think 1 plus 1 adds up to 3 plug it in what's 11 minus 3 it's not 9 so it tells you that something is wrong only the right answer will make it go back to 9 so if you want to experience if you want to learn 2+2 just look at the number 22 there's an exercise in there so all you do is add up the numbers 2 plus 2 is 4 22 minus 4 is 18 look at my answer does it add up to 9 then everything's fine every number does this this is what I believe is the missing chapter in every math book my goal is the ambassador of world maths day is to reach every nine-year-old on the planet to teach them this simple pattern so that when they're 9 years old every number on our planet will go back to their age and make them feel like every numbers of friend it'll eliminate the anxiety that kids have about basic arithmetic it will revolutionize the relationship that students understand about numbers and how they work together now when you're watching a football game or a basketball game you see a player's number it's 34 you guys can there's an exercise we need to happen 3 plus 4 is 7 34 minus 7 is 27 2 + 7 is 9 look at all the math they did just to get to 9 I promise you when you leave today you're watching TV later on you're driving home you see a number somewhere you're driving home you see a speed limit sign it says 55 just let your brain go 5 + 5 is 10 55 - 10 45 4 + 5 is 9 you just exercise this muscle in your brain on the show superhumans they said that when they look my brain under the MRI fMRI that one area of my brain lights up tremendously it's called area 44 it's right here above your left eye on the side of your head next to your temple this is where we all have a little calculator it's about the size of a dime and they said that when they saw mine doing my world record that it was four and a half times as large as normal and the doctor said the only way I could do that is either bumping my head several times or discovering a way to make this thing bigger and faster what I just shared with you I believe is an exercise that is going to revolutionize the relationships between numbers and humans numbers are the most powerful language on the planet Earth are the most precise the most popular the most powerful they're everything and yet we are so afraid of this beautiful language please help me eliminate that anxiety if we can get kids on board of learning this basic stuff having a basic foundation of basic arithmetic being able to add subtract basic numbers in your head knowing all numbers go back to nine so you don't have to feel like you got to guess at eight plus eight you can check it in your head will eliminate this fear and anxiety that kids have and all I can tell you as I've seen watching a lot of your facial reactions it's really fun I learn a lot about people by watching you react and one thing I want to share with you is this if you have kids at home and they come home from school and they say hey mom dad I need some help with the long division today I'm just not getting it and you just start laughing out loud you just you know I haven't done that since 1993 I don't even know what's that long division go get your big brother or something you know here's what your kid just heard they're looking at you you've got a job money car house food clothes traveling and you can't do long division so why do they need to learn long division it's an attitude that is contagious in our society it's become socially accepted to be bad at math when I go on national TV shows they start off the show by saying you know I'm terrible at math I'm like wait a minute if you were illiterate would you start to show up by saying you know I can't read or write it's it's just okay to be bad at math we've got to change that attitude in America is a place that we can do it you know I travel around the world but something happens in America we're very blessed we're in a very special country if we could change it here in America it would go around the world so please I ask you to help me out I'm running out of time but I just do I just want to show you a couple slides I've had a very blessed life I found my gift just found a purpose to use my gift for and now I get to travel the world is the ambassador of world math day let me let me go to this presentation first I just want to give you my website so you guys can get all that here's my website human calculator calm my sponsor on the global spokesperson for mathletics calm mathletics calm is an online math resource and we have everything about math your kids will ever need to learn subscription-based we have 50,000 schools that use our program home schoolers around the world we went awards all over the world we have the coolest online environment and when they get done doing their curriculum we put them into the world education games we just hosted the three largest contests online we have world spelling day world Math stay and world science day world maths day this year broke the world record for the largest online event we had over five million students from over 200 countries competing for 24 hours straight to find the best mathletes in the world we can identify the top students in every country my job is the ambassador of this company is to go visit those winning schools to celebrate these winning students they go on Good Morning America with me the Today Show Good Morning Australia I put them on the biggest shows in the world that I can because I want us to celebrate our mathletes like we celebrate our athletes and hence become athletes got everything all the money all the fame all the TV our mathletes are the ones they're going to save the world and we don't even recognize them so we've really created an amazing program called world math stay calm it's free please tell your kids about it your school's about it literally it's an amazing event I don't have enough time but I just want to show you a couple pictures what you would I get to see every day that keeps me going on this mission these are some pictures I'm just going to just skip to a couple of them here's the official page world Education Gamescom we had a 6 through 8 March this is a pictures of some of the students around the world here's our Australian ambassadors there's one little guy show you though is this him no these are brothers though they both won that was cool but there's one little guy here oh this guy was pretty funny too yeah that's good let's see where is he he's from Tasmania if you ever been to Australia Tasmania is a tiny little island south and this little guy from Tasmania won his Island and he was the most excited little guy on the planet Earth I can't find it he's when you see his picture he's hilarious well he's somewhere in here I'm sorry I can't take all that time okay so let me go back to this one this was the best day of my life I got to go on Oprah Winfrey Show I don't know if you've been on Oprah or not but when you go on Oprah Winfrey Show when you get home that night your life changes forever really an amazing energy this woman has I can't explain it when you walk on that stage and you sense the energy and you see the cameras and an Oprah comes out you know your life is going to change it's very scary but exciting moment my life this date was really put me on the map it gave me all kinds of opportunities I never expected but an even better day was this day right here this was my favorite day Oprah Winfrey has an Academy for Girls in South Africa and she invited me to go down there and speak to the girls 320 girls living behind that wall they have their own gym their own food their own dormitories they live there it's an amazing place nice of school in South Africa Oprah and her team gold cross South Africa every year and find the 50 smartest little girls they can find that have nothing they come from homelessness shelters broken families rough situations kids at schools that don't have any computers no resources rough areas it's it's amazing when you go down to South Africa and see what these kids are going through top 50 little girls that have nothing go behind these walls this year Oprah graduated her first class of little girls and all 50 girls graduated high school all 50 girls were accepted at universities around the world all 50 little girls that came from nothing in South Africa are going to our colleges now what excuse do we have why are our kids dropping out why is our dropout rate over 40 percent why are kids not inspired to go to college we have the resources it comes down to one thing that I've seen around the world just my best guess attitude attitude changes everything we got to change the attitude about arithmetic and how people feel about basic math all right in closing uh oh yeah one more thing thanks buddy UH one more thing this calendar that I did this calendar day of the week thing I can't stand the Roman calendar so I'm introducing my calendar on December 21st 2012 the same day the Mayan calendar ends the Mayan calendar thank you it's uh I didn't know this right away but it really freaked me out when it hit me I was doing a tea I was doing a radio show in America called coast to coast with art bell in the middle of night it's like three hours of midnight and they have always crazy guests and I got the I got to go on that show and it's really funny to think December 21st 2012 the next day on the Mayan calendar is 1300 it goes on to the next galactic cycle it's called but anyway I'm invented I've invented a calendar that has 13 months that has a zero day a zero month in a zero year so coincidence or not I don't know but I don't believe in coincidences though I believe that my calendar starting on December 21st 2012 will be a revolution in time the Mayan calendar prediction said it's the end of the time or the end of the world I think it's a misinterpretation I think they meant the end of time as we know it meaning the end of this crazy before en calendar that nobody understands to show you to show you last thing last thing before I go just to show you how evil it is out evil and just to show you it truly is evil look at the word evil if you spell evil backwards it's live I can't spell that well but it's live and devil backwards is lived alright so the Romans are evil and I'm going to prove it to you last thing before I go if you two met me 2,000 years ago as a human calculator you wouldn't talk to me in these numbers that we use you just said Roman numerals ivx remember these I is what one V X L very good C D 500 these are the everyday numbers in the Roman world all right let's add those up what's 500 plus 100 600 plus fifty six fifty plus ten six sixty plus five six six six it adds up to 666 the Romans were evil they didn't count zero they had no year zero they went from one VC to one ad if you showed up with zero goats at the market that even talk to you zero is not a number they did not count zero it's all one through ten and now think about what you do on your hands we all do this one five ten those are the first three Roman numerals they have been planted this theory of one through ten in our brain and in our hands we have to interrupt that pattern and change it and so I believe what I shared with you today is the beginning of that the calendar will come out of December 21st 2012 no pressure at first I was very serious about this calendar I took it very personally it didn't come out on 9999 now I have zero fear because I'm not changing the calendar I'm starting a new calendar I don't have to fix the old one I have to fix these crazy Romans calendar you can when you turn on your computer you can choose to have the verb Orion calendar run your computer you could choose to have the Chinese calendar the Hebrew calendar there's 42 calendars around the world that you can choose to use all I'm doing is introducing one more called the human calendar and it's going to be an adjustment period of seven years I have a goal of seven years of implementing this first into businesses to show them how to save money on their bottom line how to interpret the numbers and sales and balance out all the financial quarters and half years because there's all these flip-flops and things like that and so the my goal is the end of seven years is that this calendar we come everyday use and it's funny that the Bible talks about a thing called the apocalypse seven years this whole seven year period the word apocalypse means changing of the mind I believe that we're going to go through a revolution and how we think about time which is really the most important thing we have time which I've run out of so you go to my website later this year download that please go to world maths tame athletics calm I'm trying to change the way we feel about math if you feel that way today follow me on Twitter human calculator very simple I have a Facebook page I never go to you can go there and other than that if you have any questions right let's Jim alright come on up Jim if you can just do a couple questions okay it's all you Jim said it's okay any questions questions yes we'll start there for the movie what touch No hang on we write this down I love to learn so the movie touches all about numbers okay I have done a lot of free time I'm going to check that out thank you yes right well first off I won't challenge you about this but I will say that what you learned about this nine thing is a little bit different there's a thing called the nines check which is used for all rithmetic addition subtraction well and so those that's taught by teachers since the beginning of time but for some reason think about numerology astrology you guys ever do that don't do it it's evil but um if you do a straw have you doing strategy they say oh what's your name oh it adds up to 22 that makes you a four they reduce everything to a single-digit they were getting rid of the nines all the time and didn't even recognize this pattern about 9 when they were doing it backwards because you know why anything that celebrates you when today you look up to the stars oh you know those stars must mean that this is going to happen to me tomorrow that's just a big ego trip I really have a tough time believing that the stars are lined up to interpret all of our lives that's that's a big step but I do know that numbers are important in everybody's life and if you're in a study numbers get good at basic math don't study your horoscope horoscope just read the wrong one for a week and you'll see how crazy that is just focus on learning numbers and having this basic foundation all right yeah any more questions yes so how could we best serve and help you with your mission it would meeting the Secretary of Education help or what would help you the most yeah you know this week uh it's been a very timing-wise thanks for asking that last week and this week I'm in Los Angeles trying to get a new TV show with a network so they have this big conference where all the TV show people women would connecting with Mark Burnett hell uh yeah mark could be great you know um I don't like Donald Trump that much so probably not but uh I'm just kidding Donald's great uh you know um having a TV show you know like Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution except I just want to do math revolution so if anybody can help me there I'd be honored the calendar thank you the calendar is just a fun hobby for the next few years don't worry about that but I will show you what I got coming out next last thing Jim I swear almost really his last thing almost is uh uh oh I can't you know what I can't all right I'm going to do this this is the dumbest thing I've ever done I left I left this picture in my photos so I have to open my photos man who knows what's going to come in here come on hurry up let me just see if I can find this don't look at any other pictures just focus on that one right there this is my next project coming out it's called the math matrix when I discovered zero through nine I was sitting or going why are we teaching kids one through ten so I just started writing down zero through nine look at the blue letters zero one through nine zero three nine zero through nine the blue numbers then I just saw a pattern so I grabbed another pen I started doing it the other way zero through nine down down and it created this matrix that goes double zero through 99 since then I've discovered several patterns hidden in this matrix and all I've done is created a book where if I give kids ten crayons ten colors for the ten digits in ten chapters I can totally turn on the calculator in their brain and I was going to release it earlier this year but all these other opportunities have come up and some TV ideas and things so I'm just sort of waiting because I want to you know go out you know really big and try to reach as many kids as possible so you'll be if you go to my website you'll be able to put your email in and it will send you more information about this that's nothing okay so uh alright last question come on one more question up yes hi Scott um it's funny that the the native tribes actually have a thirteen moon cycle that they follow is it so you and you're talking about the 13 moons that that saw the most of the Indian tribes actually follow 13 moon cycles yes it's the only way that all it the lunar cycles are natural nobody can miss it it's no do with a man-made clock I don't think we should start the year on January 1st my calendar will begin on December 21st 2012 because it's the winter solstice the winter solstice do you know I don't know if you guys know the history of this but the winter solstice was a big deal because every day before that kept getting shorter and shorter and shorter cavemen were freaking out thinking every day was going to get shorter to where there was no day left so in December 21st came and then the 22nd 3rd for that started getting longer again it was time to throw a party so that's why December 25th turned into a party it was called Saturnalia in the Roman Empire and then when Jesus and His disciples got involved in all that stuff they tried to appease the Christians and renamed it Christmas or you know Jesus's birthday but before I was just Saturnalia so my calendars going to start on December 21st the shortest day of the year it's a natural thing you'll know what's happening you don't have to look at a mechanical clock thanks for reminding me of that yeah ok I better go you guys last thing before I go thank you for your attention and thank you for trying to do some math all I ask is please share what you learned today with one person in your life who's worse at math than you all right god bless you all thank you very much thank you guys thank you god bless you

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Published: Thu Oct 25 2012