7 Math Hacks That Will Change Your Lives!

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1. Multiples of 9 works in reverse order!
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2. Your hands can tell you the future ... okay, fine, it can tell you multiples of 6, 7, 8, and 9!

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3. Butterfly method for adding and subtracting fractions! No fighting over pizza anymore!
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4. Reverse Zorro! Starting at the bottom, draw a line from the 4 to the 24 (4 goes into 24 six times). Draw the line to the
3 (six times three is 18). Draw the top line and write the answer.
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4. Know what date will fall on what day of the week any time ... GENIUS!
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5. How to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice versa all in your head!
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6. Percentages will never stifle you ever again
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7. My exact reaction when I actually learned this. Mind. Explosion.

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The Easy (but Short Term) Mental Trick: Prepare Your Mind a Few Months Forward and BackwardP

Reddit user GreggOttowa explains his method—good for a few months ahead or behind you:P

For any given month, all the multiples of 7 fall on the same day. I usually have memorized what day that is for the current month and the next few months. So October is a "[F]riday month" and November is a "Monday month" and December is a "Wednesday month". You only have to memorize a new one every month.

Now when somebody says, "We should get together one Saturday. Say... December 12." you can snap back with "That's a Monday. Do you mean December 10?" All you have to do is find the nearest multiple of 7 and work from there. So when they ask about December 12, that's close to December 14 - which must be a Wednesday (since December 2011 is a Wednesday month).P
The benefit of this method is that there's not a lot of mental overhead or memorization required. If you can remember that this November is a "Monday month" and December is a "Wednesday month", for example, you should be good at quickly snatching days of the week out of your brain for the rest of the year. Just remember that the 1st and 7th are not the same, so when you determine the base day for a month, you want to go by the 7th of the month or the last day of the previous month—the zero day—and not the 1st.P

But let's say you want to be able to wow your friends and co-workers with more obscure dates (without turning to your phone). Things get a little more complicated.P

The Hard (but More Robust) Way:P

It's one thing to rattle of that the 20th of next November is a Sunday, but if I were to ask you to tell me the day of the week for July 4, 1776, things get a bit more complicated. For those calculations, we have to pull out bigger guns.P

Web site Grey Matters has an extensive and detailed tutorial for determining the day of the week for any date thrown at you, no matter how far into the past or future, complete with plenty of mnemonics. The basic principles of this method look like this:P

1) Day and Months Number Conversion: To work out the days of the week mentally, we need to convert them into numbers. We'll also need to convert the months into numbers, to adjust for their effects. These are taught in an easy-to-remember manner.

2) Addition of 3 Numbers: Without using a calculator, can you tell me what 6 + 6 + 31 is? That's about as difficult as the basic formula gets. If you're comfortable doing that, you won't have a problem working through the formula.

3) Subtracting Multiples of 7: Let's say you're asked about the 27th of a month. Regardless of the month or year, we can state with certainty that the 27th of a month will fall on [the same day of the week as] the 6th (since it's 3 weeks, or 21 days, earlier). Since adding 6 is simpler than adding 27, and will give the same result, why not use 6? If you learn to subtract multiples of 7, this makes the arithmetic so easy that you won't have to worry about addition problems any tougher than 6 + 6 + 6!

4) Year Number Conversion: After becoming comfortable with all of the above when given dates in the years 2000 to 2003, you'll learn how to remember and adjust the leap years in the 21st century to key dates. After learning those, you'll learn a simple way to adjust for any year from 2000 to 2099, and even adjust for other centuries!P


see here - How to Quickly Figure Out the Day of the Week Any Date Falls On
 
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