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2. Trachtenberg system - Wikipedia

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   Trachtenberg system. The Trachtenberg system is a system of rapid mental calculation. The system consists of a number of readily memorized operations that allow one to perform arithmetic computations very quickly. It was developed by the Ukrainian engineer Jakow Trachtenberg in order to keep his mind occupied while being in a Nazi concentration ...

3. Mental calculation - Wikipedia

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   The first Mental Calculations World Championship took place in 1998. This event repeats every year and now occurs online. It consists of a range of different tasks such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, irrational and exact square roots, cube roots and deeper roots, factorizations, fractions, and calendar dates. [8]

4. Mental calculator - Wikipedia

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   A mental calculator or human calculator is a person with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation (such as adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing large numbers). In 2005, a group of researchers led by Michael W. O'Boyle, an American psychologist previously working in Australia and now at Texas Tech University, has used MRI ...

5. Number bond - Wikipedia

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   Number bond. In mathematics education at primary school level, a number bond (sometimes alternatively called an addition fact) is a simple addition sum which has become so familiar that a child can recognise it and complete it almost instantly, with recall as automatic as that of an entry from a multiplication table in multiplication. For ...

6. Grid method multiplication - Wikipedia

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   Grid method multiplication. The grid method (also known as the box method) of multiplication is an introductory approach to multi-digit multiplication calculations that involve numbers larger than ten. Because it is often taught in mathematics education at the level of primary school or elementary school, this algorithm is sometimes called the ...

7. Jakow Trachtenberg - Wikipedia

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   Jakow Trachtenberg (17 June 1888 – 26 October 1951) was a mathematician who developed the mental calculation techniques called the Trachtenberg system. [1] He was born in Odessa, in the Russian Empire (today Ukraine). He graduated with highest honors from the Mining Engineering Institute in St. Petersburg and later worked as an engineer in ...