The nine-year-old Rustenburg school boy has just returned from Germany where he came second in an international mental maths competition, his achievement sandwiched between the two 11-year-olds who ...

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Six in 10 parents are throwing their own parents’ rulebooks out the window, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 parents of kids ages 0 to 6 revealed that today’s moms and dads are ...

Aaryan Shukla's mental maths skills stunned one and all, including Anand Mahindra. Can the technique turn your child into a prodigy too? Listen to Story By now, everyone knows about 14-year-old maths ...

SUMMERS: But Aaryan Shukla is not like most people. AARYAN SHUKLA: I loved playing with numbers, so I started learning mental math since the age of 6. SUMMERS: The 14-year-old from India has set ...

Remember when your teachers used to say that mental math is important because you can’t walk around with a calculator everywhere you go? Never minding the fact that we now do, actually ...

Indeed, the kids with jobs who are also in school "underperform despite being extraordinarily good at mental math," says Abhijit Banerjee an MIT economist and another co-author of the paper.

He did this by predicting which shot the darts player would throw next via the use of quick maths and watching their eyes. "I've always been good at mental maths, but you need darts maths to be an ...