ct 17 2014 : The Times of India (Delhi)
Guj teen world’s mental math champ
Yagnesh Mehta
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Two years ago, Granth Thakkar had floored all when he won the world's fastest num ber game, Flash Anzan, by adding 15 numbers flashing past very quickly on a giant screen in Turkey.Now, this mathematics wizard from Vapi has been crowned the world's fastest mental calculator. Granth, achieved this feat at Junior Mental Calculators World Championship 2014 (JMCWC-2014) held in Dresden in Germany.
Around 40 people from 18 countries participated. Granth, son of a clerk in Vapi municipality, also won the mental calculation world cup.
“Granth scored 1,547 points out of 1,600, which is the 13, highest in the of the competi the tion. His hard work and dedica tion helped him win,” said his father Rakesh.
A class XI student Asha Dham School, Granth aspires to be an astronaut. “I wish to become an astronaut and work in Nasa. I am yet to finalize the courses to pursue after class XII and I am focusing on school studies right now,” he told TOI.
Granth gathered the points in 23 different types of mental arithmetic tests.
A participant takes tests like addition, multiplication, square root and others.
Around 40 people from 18 countries participated. Granth, son of a clerk in Vapi municipality, also won the mental calculation world cup.
“Granth scored 1,547 points out of 1,600, which is the 13, highest in the of the competi the tion. His hard work and dedica tion helped him win,” said his father Rakesh.
A class XI student Asha Dham School, Granth aspires to be an astronaut. “I wish to become an astronaut and work in Nasa. I am yet to finalize the courses to pursue after class XII and I am focusing on school studies right now,” he told TOI.
Granth gathered the points in 23 different types of mental arithmetic tests.
A participant takes tests like addition, multiplication, square root and others.
