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Old 01-07-2009, 02:01 PM
 
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Does anyone remember learning this funky way to count and calculate in elementary school? I had a math teacher in the late 70s who had studied this method and taught it to us in first grade. We could add and subtract easily using our fingers.

If I remember it correctly, the fingers on my right hand each represented a count of 1, the thumb represneted 5. On the left hand, each finger was a 10 and the thumb was a 50. It sounds confusing, but it really worked!

Did anyone else learn this method?
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Old 01-07-2009, 02:35 PM
 
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Oh my goodness. That is EXACTLY how I was taught counting, and to my detriment I might add. I had forgotten the name until I saw your post. To this day, I STILL "count it off", on my fingers for any math facts. NEVER memorized any math facts at all. Yes, I'm a seventies child. This was a problem for me throughout school. Embarresing (sp?) to count on my fingers, secretly held under the desk or wherever as I got older.
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Old 01-07-2009, 04:39 PM
 
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I never learned it, but I remember when I was a kid in the 70's there were always commercials on for it. I think Fred MacMurray (the dad on My Three Sons) was the host/spokesman, right?

My school district never taught it, and I remember kids getting in trouble for "counting on their fingers" in school, so it would have been frowned upon.

I guess Chisanbop went down the same road as Evelyn Wood Speed-Reading Dynamics!
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Old 01-07-2009, 06:29 PM
 
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I vaguely remember it but I guess it didn't take. I found this link that shows the method: Chisenbop tutorial
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Old 01-08-2009, 08:18 PM
 
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My nephew was struggling with multiplications with numbers > 6, so I taught him this. Worked like a charm (he was already counting with his fingers anyway).
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