My Town Monday: San Diego's Human Calculator

Some San Diego attractions: the ocean, the mountains, the desert, many sunny days, the zoo, Legoland, Seaworld!

AND we are also home to Scott Flansburg, the Human Calculator! This nickname was bestowed upon him by Regis Philbin.

Scott adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, figures out cube and square roots in his head faster than a calculator!

An MRI showed that several parts of Scott's brain were at work when he was solving these math equations. The rest of us are only using one part. I may be operating on less than one part.

You may well have heard of this guy as he's appeared on a bunch of TV shows (Jay Leno, Oprah, Dateline, Good Morning American, Regis and Kathy Lee, and many more). Plus, he's in the Guinness Book of Records. And he has written some books on math for both adults and kids.

If you've never seen this guy in action, take a peek at the video below. It's pretty incredible.

Thank you, Child #3, for this My-Town-Monday post idea.


Click here for links to more My Town Monday posts! It's always fun to see what's going on in other corners of the world. Happy Monday!

sources:
http://www.cincinnatihomeschoolconvention.com/don’t-miss-scott-flansburg-–-the-human-calculator