Mental Math, We All Need It But How To Teach It?
We all remember our teachers asking us to do math calculations in our head but not knowing really how to do it?
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We all remember our teachers asking us to do math calculations in our head but not knowing really how to do it?
Continue readingYou might, as I did, find this article surprising if you have a young learner just about to enter kindergarten.
Continue readingNow that we have learned Basic Division and Division with a Single Digit Divisor, let’s continue this time considering division
Continue readingWe begin learning to perform long division on the abacus with a single digit divisor. Just like in the standard
Continue readingIf this is your first time doing division on the abacus please see a more basic example, How to Divide
Continue readingSince multiplication is repeated addition, any multiplication problem can be solved on an abacus. To perform multiplication on an abacus,
Continue readingLet’s generalize what we did with Multiplication with Single Digit Multiplier to a multi-digit multiplier. In this case we will
Continue readingMultiplication on the abacus is simple, fast, and efficient. The pre-requisites for learning how to multiply on the abacus are
Continue readingTo add and subtract 2 and 3 digit numbers or even higher multi-digit numbers is the same as if we
Continue readingIn Lesson 11 we looked at the Forward Double Rod movement for addition problems. Now let’s take a look at the Reverse
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