Which is easier: mental arithmetic or written arithmetic? Which is easier, mental arithmetic or written arithmetic?

If you try to think only in your head, part of your brain will be devoted to remembering. - Designing ways to learn It’s easier to do it visually than just in my head / I don’t have to remember it. - BMOT Special Class No. 4 “Intellectual Production Memory is a burden on the brain. / It’s easier to write down ideas as they come to you on paper and look at them than to think about them as they come to you in your memory. - Lecture on how to generate ideas

Mental arithmetic penmanship.

[Blindfolded Shogi and Normal Shogi

relevance - think in writing


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