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> being good at math, especially mental math, correlates with aphantasia as someone who used to do math competitions as a kid, everyone I knew who was "good"
by thorncorona 3y ago
> being good at math, especially mental math, correlates with aphantasia
as someone who used to do math competitions as a kid, everyone I knew who was "good" at mental math had a good number sense, a big bag of tricks for doing different things with numbers, and practiced with their bag of tricks.
- ajkjk 3y agoI did math competitions also, but I'm not really talking about the specialized tricks like fast multiplication or square root algorithms. I'm just talking about basic stuff, like computing tips or taking percents. Most people simply cannot add or multiply numbers in their accurately, by any method.