ABACUS HOOP Version 1.0 (AH)
The Abacus Hoop or AH in short is the latest innovation by Mindware Plt. It is designed and developed for the learning and teaching of primary-level mathematics.
Children in their early years of cognitive development need to use their 5 senses to learn – sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell to gather information situated in their environment. This is very true of children learning early mathematics.
For the primary level, the use of teaching tools and manipulatives like abacus, Multilink cubes and so forth are recommended in the learning of Numbers and Operations. Abacus Hoop is one such product for the same purpose and has other added advantages in that it is a multifunctional counting tool as explained below.
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Topics that are:
i. Numbers within 100,
ii. Numbers within 1000,
iii. Numbers within 10 000,
iv. Addition and subtraction,
v. Multiplication,
vi. Division,
vii. Problem solving
Suitable with the usage of AH
Counting abacus
Soroban - 4:1 abacus
Traditional suanpan 5.2 abacus
