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What is Abacus Math ?
Learning Chinese Abacus can help children to develop very impressive arithmetic skill.
Chinese have been using abacus for hundreds of years and it is well known for its accuracy and efficiency. Learning abacus math helps to enhance the level of creativity, sensitivity and their divergent and convergent thinking. It also helps to expand their mathematical skills as well as their problem solving skills.
Abacus Math is one of arithmetic methods. It helps young children to memorize the bead of the abacus in their mind to perform calculation. After one or two years training, most young children can perform very impressive arithmetic skills such as giving an answer in one to two seconds to question like 26 x 53 or 73+26+82+55. There are three stages of Abacus Math:
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Multimedia Lesson Plans For Mathematics
Many forms of media can be used in math lesson plans placing the medium in the role of both instructor and as a tool used by the “live” instructor. This article touches on only a few but may give you some ideas for similar ways to do this in your classroom. One educator who developed and employed multimedia into math lessons found that:
- mathematical vocabulary of the students increased (and they made a more conscious effort to USE the correct terminology)
- students asked more questions
- response quality improved
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The Joy of Learning Mathematics
For many students, maths is a phobia at par with the fear of snakes, lizards, elevators, water, flying, public speaking, and heights. Though the “ailment” is neither genetic, nor infectious, they “inherit” it from their parents; and “catch” it from their friends. What are the reasons behind maths’ dreadful reputation that divides the society into mathematical “haves” and “have-nots”?
“One reason why students fare badly in Maths is that they are learning it mechanically, often not understanding what they are learning and they are unable to apply it to real-life situation,” says Vijay Kulkarni, the leader of the First Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released recently by the well known Bombay-based non-governmental organization, Pratham.
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