How to multiply in your Head : Mental Math Tricks

How to multiply in your Head : Mental Math Tricks An engaging video that will provide you tips and strategies to do Mental Math.
This will help you acquire a Number Sense, critical for developing good math skills.Tips on how to multiply faster than ever! Suitable for young learners and professionals. Enjoy.

Overview:
Why do I need mental math when I have a calculator ?
Well, you may have a calculator but there will be many times when you cannot use it.
You might be in an important meeting and need to calculate something
You may be standing at a till, paying your bill and wish to check your total.
I could give you many more examples.
But more importantly, if you want to be good with numbers, you have to have what many call a good "number sense".
And for this, you need to look at them closely, relate to them, play with them.
And mental math helps you achieve this.
And you know this as well as me that we deal with numbers DAILY.
So this is a skill worth investing in.
And finally, mental math is way cooler than using a calculator, is'nt it?

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
openclipart.org
mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/65180.html
buildyourmemory.com/numbers.php
youtube.com/watch?v=30X37X1uk2o
cmcmath.org/family/PDF%20Documents/MentalMathPa…

Tools Used:
Microphone : Samson Meteor
Voice Editor : Audacity
Animation : Sparkol Video scribe
Illustrations: funza Academy + openclipart.org
Video editor + SFX : iMovie


Individuals involved in Video:
Sanjay Noronha, Preeti Kaul