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Hello all, Google Summer of Code 2017 has come to an end. In this due time, I evolved as a student pursuing a Bachelor of Commerce who can also do programming. Mind Math activity is in its last stages of development. A detailed report on the activity is available in its repository, here . I express my sincere gratitude to Tony Anderson, who mentored me throughout the project and helped me to overcome many odds. I had a huge sense of fear being a newbie to initiate a communication on a topic during the initial days. But Tony has helped a lot in this case and initiated conversation many times and also took much time in providing me with the feedback on the work. [Drafting...]

Hello all, In the last week, I was working on the calculator challenge part of the activity. As you might have seen the developments, with the latest activity the user will be able to get to know a trick, learn it and keep practising it. So what's next? As they learn and improve, they shall become capable of challenging a calculator and compete with it. On posing a question, the user and the calculator will compete to answer. In a calculator, the time taken to enter the question on screen is accounted while a user can do math by his/her mind. Within a given time, the user has to answer the question or our friend, Tux using the calculator will win. It gets interesting if we are able to answer the questions faster than a calculator does. A screenshot showing the challenge. The code needs to be merged and a quick cleanup is pending. I shall update the game url once I complete that. Game link: [To be updated] Repository link: https://github.com/SanjayKumarr/M

Hello all, It's been some time posting my updates here. With learning the tricks to solve the problems quickly,  the mentors suggested that it would be better if we can help the learner to understand the actual math behind the trick. That will help them to learn and explore more. Taking the valuable suggestions, a new part called "curiosity clicks" has been added to the activity. Let that evolve in time in this weeks, but before getting to that, we will see the math behind few math tricks we saw in the last post. 1) Square of a number just below 100. 2) Multiply any number with 5. 3) Multiply any number with 9. 4) Multiply any number with 11. 5) Square of any number ending with 5. 6) Square of any number just above 100. You may please test the being developed activity here and also the code repository here .