Speed arithmetic.
Two- and three-digit products, square shortcuts, ratio plays. A common round-one filter at the syllabus desks.
About/Mental Math
Speed arithmetic, fractions, percentages, log/exp estimation. The skill first-rounders fail not because it’s hard but because they’re rusty.
Easy is the definition. Normal combines two. Hard hides which one applies until you've done the work.
Two- and three-digit products, square shortcuts, ratio plays. A common round-one filter at the syllabus desks.
Conversions, comparisons, complements. The basics under five seconds.
Squares to 30, cubes to 12, common roots, near-misses.
Magnitude reasoning, 2ⁿ tables, ln/log shortcuts.
Sanity checks, units, ballparking products before you commit.
Mental division, ratio comparison, rate-of-change.
“You can teach the math.
You can’t teach fifteen-second confidence.”
Other skills
Train them in any order. The system targets your level in each.
02
Probability & Statistics.
Conditional, Bayes, expected value, distributions.
03
Trading Intuition.
Bid-ask, market making, position sizing, P&L.
04
Fermi Estimation.
Order-of-magnitude reasoning. Process beats number.
05
Logic & Brainteasers.
Logic puzzles, combinatorics, game theory.
06
Cognition.
Working memory, reaction time, sequence, planning.
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