Read the Brainetics Reviews from Around the Web. October 2008: Brainetics is Honored with a 2008 Parents' Choice Gold Award Denver, CO
Brainetics, a breakthrough mind and memory system created by "The Walking Calculator" Mike Byster, received a 2008 Parents' Choice Gold Award. Founded in 1978, The Parents' Choice Foundation is a non-profit panel of educators, scientists, librarians, whose mission is to "create for parents a non-commercial clearinghouse of supplementary media experiences and learning products." They also "provide parents with information to participate wisely in their children's learning outside the classroom."
Read more about the award January 2008: Brainiac behind Brainetics brings his cool calculations to class
Gary J. Kunich - Kenosha News - Kenosha, WI
Mike Byster captivates a class of kids like some kind of mathematical rock star.
Read Full Article (pdf) December 2007: Math Magic
Erla Mae Clearmont - Waterford Post - Waterford, WI
Speaker teaches local kids how to use their minds faster, better.
Read Full Article (pdf) December 2007: Whiz says math can come easy
Brian Hudson - Glen Ellyn News - Glen Ellyn, IL
Byster is a human calculator, able to crunch staggering equations in moments with nothing more than a little concentration.
Read Full Article December 2007: Wisconsin Public Radio
Kathleen Dunn - WPR - Wisconsin
Kathleen Dunn talks with one of the fastest mathematical minds in the world.
Listen Online October 2007: Mike Byster awes kids in Denver Public Schools
Kieran Nicholson - The Denver Post - Denver, CO
Mike Byster is a mathematical genius who uses memorization techniques to solve complex problems in his head at about the same speed as someone using a calculator.
Read Full Article February 2006: Sunday Lunch with Mike Byster
Debra Picket - Sun-Times News Group
I did not, of course, have to repeat my cell phone number to Mike Byster. The first time I said it out loud, he'd instantly memorized it, using a complicated mnemonic that adds together the first four digits and then compares that number to the last three digits.
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Read Full Article (pdf) February 2004: Wild About Math? Count on it!
William Hageman - Chicago Tribune
A numbers whiz fires up students
Read Full Article (pdf) November 1998: Trader's Lessons Add Up For Kids
Susan E. Miller - Chicago Sun-Times/Bloomberg News
Michael Byster, brown hair ruffled and arms waving, squats in his New Balance sneakers to be at eye level with the classroom of third-graders.
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