It's 8 years old so yes the last years of infants (had to ask the mrs). So what this thread is telling me is that kids should drop the ipad and pick up the abacus.
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It's 8 years old so yes the last years of infants (had to ask the mrs). So what this thread is telling me is that kids should drop the ipad and pick up the abacus.
It's 8 years old so yes the last years of infants (had to ask the mrs). So what this thread is telling me is that kids should drop the ipad and pick up the abacus.
A piece of paper and a pencil is just as good.
I still carry my abacus around with me as some sort of show of maths prowess, don't you?
muon said:
Your telling me that? The only person in this thread who literally put pen to paper? You sir are clearly preaching to the converted
I recon so
I don't really have that much of an opinion to be honest, I genuinely believe it teaches something be that substitution or whatever, there is probably even studies that show it's a better way to teach kids about numbers. I can only remember the way I was taught so this does seem a little crazy.
sure, but an abacus would be more efficient and much less tedious - this is basically reinventing something that already existed in a much better form for rather a long time...
But why buy 30 abacus sets which will only get used for less than a month before kids actually learn to do it all in their head?
How will you track a mistake or see how a child calculated it?
In written form a piece if paper can also teach you. An abacus can't.
Do all parents now have to buy an abacus for homework?
Where will you keep all these abacus sets most of the year?
An abacus also doesn't help your visual memory as you effectively erase everything every calculation.
abacuses aren't exactly expensive bits of equipment
as for they don't train your 'visual memory'? I'm pretty sure they do - frankly if the OP's kid had started on one aged 4 he wouldn't need to do this tedious convoluted nonsense 4 years later...
this is a crap, more tedious version of the same thing
as for they don't train your 'visual memory'? I'm pretty sure they do - frankly if the OP's kid had started on one aged 4 he wouldn't need to do this tedious convoluted nonsense 4 years later...
this is a crap, more tedious version of the same thing
Straight from the horses mouth (or the missus who is a year two teacher)..
Draw a line, put the biggest number on the right hand side. Partition the smallest number into tens and ones then three jumps of ten then seven jumps of one.
That's the school policy and it comes before learning column addition. They teach column addition at the end of year two as nearer the start most children aren't ready.
Draw a line, put the biggest number on the right hand side. Partition the smallest number into tens and ones then three jumps of ten then seven jumps of one.
That's the school policy and it comes before learning column addition. They teach column addition at the end of year two as nearer the start most children aren't ready.
But that is just holding 55 fingers up and taking away 37 fingers and being left with 18.
OPs school's method is better I think.
It's the same thing though
OPs school's method is better I think.
It's the same thing though
The number line is the national curriculum method!
Now those kids know how to operate an Abacus!