CAN YOU BEAT JAPANESE AT MATH? 

Hi, it was drummed into you when I went to school. All the times tables from 2 to 12 were on the classroom wall, and each day, our teacher picked one, and the whole class repeated it. So yes, I could do that as quickly as all the people you asked. By the way, I live in Scotland, and my teachers name was Mrs Buchan

From 1 through to 9 I had to memorize the multiplication tables in elementary school, so it was easy. The dude with the pink wig, he is on a different level. I could get there but not as fast as he did.

The reason why Asian people are so good at math us because they memorize it and practice it everyday from a young age, its the same with Jamaican kids that come from disciplined and studious families.

Impressive. In Canada and the USA kids leave school with very few math or even basic arithmetic skills. Without their phones they can barely function at times. That is my take anyway. I am sure others may disagree.

It isn't even math, it's just arithmetic. And trivial, even for an old fellow who was taught in America's supposedly weak public schools.

Yup! 1st year elementary school. They made us learn the multiplication tables too. However the guy with the pink wig is on pro level 😂

多分、算数やその上の数学が苦手になる前に丸暗記させたんだろうね。一桁の計算を覚えとけば、後は何とかなるからね。

Easy peasy, you see I'm old and back in the day, we rote learnt the times tables up to 12. You kids these days.

Do people not memorize the multiplication tables anymore?! Am I so old I didn't even notice this going away? I'm 56; we studied this in elementary school .

I only just recently learned the trick that you can do with your hands for the nines. Hold out both hands (palms facing outwards), and mentally label them one through ten (left pinky is one, ending with right pinky ten). Hold down the number you want to multiply by nine. The number of digits to the left of that finger is your tens column, the number to the right is the ones column. Nine times one (left pinky); zero to the left of the held finger, nine to the right; which gives you 0-9, 9. Nine times three (left middle); two digits to the left, seven to the right, 2-7, 27 Nine times ten (right pinky); nine digits to the left, zero to the right, 9-0, 90. Obviously, you can also do it with your hands facing the other way, just keep the left to right order of the numbers the same. It’s probably faster to just memorize them, but it’s a fun party trick.

I was educated before 1980. We learned stuff back then. Some things are worth memorizing.

I'm good at math but not too fast as I usually carefully calculate.

Single digit multiplications are quite simple to use and remember. US and Canadian kid doesn't need these quick math as the more advance math doesn't require these kind of math speed.

Learning the multiplication tables was a thing for me too. But I forgot a lot of it or it takes me longer than during my school time. I actually don’t need to use mathematics verstopften in my job, at least not to a degree were I feel I need to touch up my knowledge about it. If you don’t need to use multiplication on a daily basis you can easily forget what you learned before. I could answer the questions BUT most of them took me longer than the Japanese in this video

These are simple multiplication tables. My generation was drilled on them in early grade school. I do admit my teachers never drilled us beyond about 12 x 12 (which is 144). With that said, my older brother was always really good at doing addition, subtraction and multiplication of longer strings of digits in his head. Regardless, this is just rote memorization. It's more important to understand the principals behind the math than it is to memorize something a calculator or computer can spit out in a few microseconds.

haha..in basically I learned by heart as well the table of 9x9 in the primary school therefore it come in handy when work out a mathing or figure the total goods price out

it’s really just a matter of practice more than hard thinking. These days people use their phones as a mental crutch and therefore don’t bother memorizing anything. It makes peoples’ brains weak. It’s really. It not that hard to learn times tables up to 12. Beyond that it is often quite unnecessary. I used to work in a lab for a long time. And just because of everyday practice I could mentally do logarithmic calculations, powers of ten, square roots, percentages, and division very easily in my brain. It’s just like lifting weights but for your brain. It doesn’t require tons of intellect, just a lot of use to get strong.

I used to be good at math, but after years of being out of school, I lost it

I'm with you Kathy it's all magic to me. Thank God for calculators and now smart phones all I have to do now is ask😂

1:01 4 times 6 is 27?! And all this time I was taught it equals 24

The impact of language on learning mathematics is very interesting. The way they are using sounds to memorize tables. I just calculate. Unless it's something so repeated that it doesn't need calculations. All mental of course. For me the language for learning maths is english, even though I'm indian.

The pink guy are so smart in math

I have to admit I am nowhere at their level of math. They are practically a walking calculator.

I am with Cathy, it is all Magic.

Indian talent 5_6 class students , easy done

My math bad

Can I do math?! I'm from America!..... So of course not.

I am indian and cleared jee so i can

why so easy questions?

OMG! Moonie Cathy Cat, Maths was my nemesis at school! I totally failed at school god do i regret it now after seeing this video!I am on the same level as Usagi tsukino me thinks with her education!

7 seconds in and im going to say no. I cannot.

I'm old enough to remember memorizing the math tables. Another thing, I'm a retired engineer that used math, even basic math almost daily.

4x6=24, they say 24 but the subtitles say 27 XD

All the questions were a piece of cake for me. The simple arithmetic one does from memory (most people accomplish this using flash cards). The more complex questions, like 34 times 9 is also easy. One simply takes 34 times 10 equal to 340 and mentally subtracts 34 from 340 to get 306. This can take less than a second. I once had an advanced calculus teacher who could multiply two three-digit numbers together (like 546 times 249) and get the answer (135594) in under 2 seconds. I was impressed.

think I'm clean on up to 9, no problem. But the guy solving stuff like 81x 9 in a second is a bit beyond my scope. Also interesting, based on what the pig-tailed girl said, apparently it is universal to make kids memorize rather than understand how to do per se.

I kept thinking of your fellow German Carl Friedrich Gauss while watching. He first showed his genius at the age he was learning multiplication tables. I loved the memory song - that seems like a cool way to learn.❤

easy question.. asking question for grade school kids..

Bro imagine the same interview in the us

Should have given them some simple algebra 5X +5=10

ピンク髪おじやばい早すぎる

Maths.

The only one I couldn’t beat was the guy in the pink outfit - and I have a maths degree! But then, Einstein was rubbish at mental arithmetic 😮

In 5th class I could do that all faster. Up to 20x20 we learned. I quickly de-learned that after we could (and had to) use calculators in 8th I think. In 10th I was down to 12x12 and now I struggle with some of the single digits 😅

I could do the multiplication easily before the people interviewed. What I could not do was translate the result into Japanese before they would say the result.

can you beat Chinese at maths?

It took me longer to translate them to English and back to Japanese than to do the math.

The long anticipated math video! I'm not good at arithmetic, so no. I wouldn't have been able to answer some of them that fast. I recall seeing a multiplication table up to 12 times 12 in a text book when I was very young, but I don't think we were ever told to memorize it.

i am a math tutor, and tutored in college, back in the 90's before smartphones, cellphones.

No way im horrible at math. And noway im beating the final boss, pinkhaired math club man.