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MathHeads.net - Level up your mental math skills
Mental math stages are quite common when looking for a job as a quant or trader. MathHeads is a dynamic game designed to enhance your mathematical abilities and analytical skills. Available on both desktop and mobile devices, MathHeads uses gamification to make math learning more engaging and...
Mental Math
Hi Anyone taken the Optiver mental math recently ? I have searched all over the forums and I have trouble finding out the actual difficulty level and the kind of questions that are in the real test. The reason for question, all the popular sites have differenttype of questions. As we know we are...
Studying for IB FT and I'm slow AF: How much did you improve?
After a shit ton of studying--1.5 months of 25h/week--I have a decent handle on accounting and "what happens to the three statements?" questions. I'm still slow as fuck on some of the calculations, though. Note: not a "math person", I'm slow generally. I squeaked by college linear algebra courses....
How to get better at mental math (compounded %'s specifically)?
Hi all, I've always been strong at math (mental & otherwise), but would love to get better at dealing with % increases YoY. F.i. a business have generated a 7% YoY growth for 13 years - how much has it grown? It's obviously a lot more than 13*7%, but unsure of how to deal with this effectively Does...
am I in the wrong industry if I have this weakness?
I'm not interested in a trading career but I want to pursue a career that is market related so I felt I could get the best responses in this forum section. It seems that more and more interviews contain brainteasers and mental math. An interview can be going great but I completely screw these up....
Mental Math Practice for Consulting Case Interviews
I have consulting interviews coming up, and urgently need mental math prep. Can anyone suggest online (free) resources I can use to pick up my terrible mental math skills? What math strategies are helpful to acing the math part of the consulting interviews? Other advice on mental math prep is...
Trading and Mental Arithmetic
Do traders really need to be able to multiply numbers like 47x38 in their head? Any advantage to being a human calculator as a opposed to just being very swift with a calculator and/or computer software? Is this just an interview screen? I was asked 13x17 in my interview and got it fairly quickly...
Trachtenberg Speed Math
Has anyone read through this with any success? I would just go through the whole thing but I do not have time to freelance 270 pages this summer without knowing I will get something out of it. My mental math is currently above average at best.
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