Abacus Divide and Conquer

Dates

June 13, 2024, 1:30pm - 3:30pm Eastern

Description

Practice is everything, especially when learning how to divide numbers using the abacus. Webinar attendees will be guided through dividing single-digit numbers using the abacus. As confidence is gained, training progresses to division of larger numbers, along with guidance to understand common abacus mistakes. The webinar will end with exploring the use of an abacus as a portable calendar.

Primary Core or ECC Area: Mathematics 

Target Audience: TVIs, parents, paraprofessionals

Pre-requisite knowledge:   Abacus addition and subtraction using complementary numbers (Look for the Hive course called The Abacus: A Million Manipulatives in Your Pocket www.aphhive.org)

Presenters

Leanne Grillot, APH Senior Director of Outreach Services

Learning Objectives

Reproduce vocabulary when teaching division using an abacus.
Explain the rules for quotient figure placement and the purposes of how a division problem is set on an abacus.
Explain common errors students make when dividing with an abacus.
Evaluate division expressions to teach single-digit divisor division problems without remainders.
Evaluate division expressions to teach single-digit divisor division problems with rests.
Explain the process of teaching division with more than one-digit divisors using the partial quotients method on a braillewriter.
Demonstrate how to use the abacus as a calendar.