Education and demonstration – Mathematics
Patent
1999-02-01
2000-12-05
Ackun, Jacob K.
Education and demonstration
Mathematics
434191, 434209, 434259, 446901, 2159, 2160, G09B 1902, G09B 2302
Patent
active
061558362
ABSTRACT:
A system for teaching mathematics to beginning students includes a series of gloves and/or finger puppets, with the digits representing non-sequential number series (e.g., two, four, six, etc.). Students are taught to count various non-sequential number series using visual and tactile senses by using the gloves and/or finger puppets and associated hand patterns, with further audible reinforcement being provided by stories corresponding to each of the non-sequential series. Various caricatures corresponding to the plots of the stories may be used as further mnemonic aids for students in remembering the procedures and operations taught, with additional caricatures being provided for two and three place (i.e., tens and hundreds) digits for removable installation on the glove or finger puppet digits. Once the non-sequential series are learned, students are taught to multiply, divide, solve fraction problems, and factor numbers using the corresponding factor (e.g., two, for the two, four, six, etc. sequence). As a student advances, the gloves and/or finger puppets may be removed, with the student continuing to solve various mathematical problems in accordance with the hand patterns initially learned.
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Ackun Jacob K.
Litman Richard C.
Miller Bena B.
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