Do you still count on your fingers?

It's far better to count on fingers than use a calculator! Calculators and computers make us lazy and we don't think for ourselves as much because we use technology to do it for us, so if you count on your fingers or in your head you are exercising the use of your brain and making you more alert and on the ball rather than relying on calculating machines which I don't like, if someone asks me a sum I will do it in my head or use paper, I won't use a calculator. It's whatever works best for you, if you prefer to use your fingers, there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing that!

Well I learned the maths times tables or most of them anyway to be able to count in my mind what the answers are. Though as my brain is slowing down a little, I use the Microsoft excel program and also my own calculator to do things that I would sometimes be lost in knowing the answer.

No, that's something I rarely do and I believe that I've outgrown that. It was something I did when I was a lot smaller... And I don't think that there's something wrong with either.

Now I use my brain to calculate things. Easy calculations like 2+2, 8+1, 13+4 etc, is since a long time ago carved into my brain/memory. It would for sure take me some time to forget the answer to those.:P

Yes, I think I still count on my fingers sometimes. I remember teachers getting on to me for it as well. I still did it in secret but sometimes I got caught, lol . I don't think it's a bad thing, either. I remember before there was any such thing as a cash register that would figure the change for you, cashiers would count on their fingers in secret. I never did see it, myself, but I remember kids at school talking about it. Kathy.

Yeah sometimes I do that LoL
Especially when I'm in a hurry.
When I was in HS I was so good in mental solving(basic arithmetic) but now I'm in college I can't practice it anymore because we (BSECE students) depends on calculator.
We need to know each function of the calcu we're using(we needed that)

I remember being told not to count on our fingers too when I was in school. I still do it. It's easier to keep my place if I can count on my fingers. I still do it when I'm taking tests or something and I have to count what I'm doing. However, I do it under the desk or something so no one sees me do it, haha.

I used to count with my fingers or compute using my fingers during my elementary days. When I reached high school, I compute using my mind. I was able to memorize the multiplication table from 1 x 1 up to 10 x 10. Up until now, I still have that memory so if ever I would add, deduct, divide and multiply for as long as it does not exceed up to 10 x 10 then i can answer right away from my mind. For bigger numbers, I use a paper and compute. But this few years that I already have a cellular phone with calculator, I just used the calculator.

Yes, I still do. I do not carry a calculator around and using the cellphone for big figures would be another option. But when neither is around, I use the most reliable calculator---the fingers. They never fail me.LOL. I used that since Kindergarten and it's still good now.

Before I did, that was even in high school. But now I learned to calculate in my head through numbers (little like a calculator) I'm an artistic person and I think through pictures so what I did was think I am seeing a calculator and remember certain numeral patterns in adding and subtracting (I can't do it in diving and multiplying) like if you remove 30 from a 100 you get 70. or 29 you get 71 like that. So when I figured that out I stopped using my fingers. I can do this with ease just as long as no one is talking to me. If they are my concentration will be off and I will get angry hahah.

When I was smaller I even imagined counting my toes when my fingers were not enough. LOL

noo, i dont count my fingers now.Sometimes i use calculator.But most of the time i use my brain for it, i keep thinking and thinking until i get the answer i want.Honestly, i dont use fingers because it makes me like kid or something.If i can't get something in my head i will write it on desk or papper.