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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!
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.
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!
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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