Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Sort of Counting on Your Fingers Multiplication

I found this little post about How Japanese School Children Solve Multiplication Problems.Japanese Multiplication

This is mind-boggling. It took me a little while (maybe two minutes, probably a little less) to figure out what was being done. Once I did I realized it's a little easier to solve the problem than the way I was taught, which always involved some memory work and/or counting on my fingers to figure it out.

This is still slower than using a calculator or looking over the shoulder of the smart kid in front of you, but it's kind of fun. I like drawing the squiggly circles.

 

How Japanese school children learn to multiply?....

 

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