These Strasbourg residents will amaze the jury of "France has incredible talent"

The Strasbourg residents of the Academy of Little Geniuses.

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Tonight, you could stay mouthful if you watch the show

on M6.

Students from the Académie des Petits Génies mental arithmetic club, in the Elsau district of Strasbourg, will defend their talent at lightning speed.

Aged 7 to 14, they mentally calculate faster than light.

Even if we don't really understand the “mechanical” gestures they perform, they always find the result.

Without paper or pen, and of course without a calculator.

Enough to complex many parents ... But above all enough to impress the jury.

Even louder, they manage at the same time to recite aloud a poem, dedicated to the jury.

Their technique?

The Abacus method, used throughout Asia.

One way to calculate mentally is through the use of a Chinese abacus.

Not easy

The principle is to first learn to do multiplications, subtractions and additions with the abacus before getting there without using it, just by imagining it, and that requires a lot of training.

But above all solicits their two hemispheres.

It's not clear ?

Do you have doubts ?

So meet tonight to see the full performance of the talented little Alsatians who received a standing ovation at the end of their performance.

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