This Year's Guest Speaker

Scott Flansburg is a Guinness World Record–holding mental mathematician, educator, and bestselling author known worldwide as “The Human Calculator®.” For more than 30 years, Scott has inspired millions of students, teachers, and professionals with his unique ability to make numbers fun, visual, and meaningful. Appearing on shows like Oprah, Ellen, and the History Channel’s Stan Lee’s Superhumans, Scott demonstrates how anyone can understand numbers more naturally through patterns instead of memorization.

He is also the creator of the National Counting Bee™, a fast-paced math competition designed to build confidence and numeracy skills in students of all backgrounds. Scott’s presentations combine lightning-fast mental math demonstrations, color-based number patterns, and his innovative calendar and arithmetic systems—offering students a whole new way to see and enjoy mathematics.

Scott splits his time between New York and Arizona and continues his mission to help every student discover their own inner “human calculator.”

Here is a link to learn more about the National Counting Bee!