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The Human Calculator and Krystle Henderson team up for math and science fun at Mesa school

The counting champion himself and the meteorologist showed students at Johnson Elementary that math and science can be fun!

Team 12’s Krystle Henderson visits a group of second graders at Johnson Elementary in Mesa every year to do weather experiments and activities. But this year, she invited a very special guest.

Scott Flansburg, a.k.a. The Human Calculator, has always had a special gift when it comes to math and he started sharing his unique numbers ninja skills to students at Mesa schools many years ago.

Now he travels the world inspiring students, educators and parents, and even has his own History Channel show and an app -- The Human Calculator Game.

The free app can help prepare your student for his upcoming National Counting Bee which will make a stop in Arizona this fall. For more info, click here.

Flansburg is a Guinness World Record holder for “Fastest Human Calculation.”

During the class visit at Johnson Elementary, he taught kids to “think like a calculator,” counting from 0-9 instead of 1-10. Also showing them how to add multiple-digit numbers from left to right for faster computing.

Then, meteorologist Krystle Henderson helped the kids make cotton ball clouds as well as demonstrating experiments which taught lessons on updrafts and hail formation, lightning and thunder and precipitation.

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