Fingerithmatic is a wonderful multi sensory technique that uses the memory we all naturally have in our fingers. It helps children and adults who have difficulty understanding math and other learning concepts, by providing the brain with visual pegs on which to tie the memory. This link is with you at all times.
The New Zealand born systems developer, Frances More, has discovered a simple and fun way to turn the fingers into memory banks; meaning successful learning for all!!! More time in the classroom for other subjects.
- Higher success rates for schools.
- Higher self esteem for children.
- Happier lives for everyone!
"This really boosts the confidence of the student and gives the teacher greater satisfaction." says Frances More
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These little fingers hold a great future for their owner. The power to retain information is so amazing that it has to be experienced to be believed.
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Frances More's multi sensory teaching resources are now available through Amazon.com and this Fingerithmatic web site.
"Let there be 'No' child left behind!"
WHEN this program is implemented in every classroom and homeschool in the country, there will be NO child left behind! Even children with special needs can grasp this method quickly and keep up with the rest of the class. Their fingers will hold the memory after it is processed onto them. Allowing them to gain success which will engender more success. We all know how vital our fingers are to life; this is another use of the fingers that has been forgotten over time. Proverbs 7:3 "Tie them to your fingers and sound them down into your heart". Our own built in data bank!
This is 'different' from all other finger math concepts, this is a memory technique and the developer is willing to share her amazing teaching secrets with you!
Would you like to teach the times tables in 2 minutes?
This is a 'memory system' that can be applied to all manner of data, with proven results!
Dear Frances,
Just a note of encouragement in the new and intensely interesting domain that you so far have investigated as thoroughly as you have done.
Having watched the steady drop in the standard of mental arithmetic since the worship of electronic calculators flooded thoughtlessly in and seen the corresponding decline in confidence with more advanced mathematics, it is wonderful to come to a lecture where the object is to gain mental agility with a minimum of mental effort.
Your system is very neat and extremely simple and I cannot see why those who embrace it cannot put in front of their students the suggested goal to learn the higher tables - say up to the " x 20" perhaps. You can never have too many recall facts!!!
I've been using your extension methods such as 3 x 17 = 51 so 6 x 17 = 51 x 2 for some time in trying to stimulate students to a wider array of practical skills with common numbers and have been pushing myself to do more and more in the head. I love to play with numbers, so your words "its fun" ring true to my own fun with the subject.
I hope you move from strength to strength with the work you are doing. It is great to see some schools can appreciate your system and use it.
Hopefully, one day, the locals, who as you say, tend to be impressed with a visiting "expert from London", will have the honesty to concede that value in simplicity and acknowledge your discovery.
It is more than time to redeem the lost ground since the calculator swept away common sense in many classrooms.
Thanks again for the opportunity to learn from your lecture.
I really do wish you the rewards your energetic interest justifies you in expecting.
My very kindest regards,
Philip Tomlinson BSc (NZ), BA, MSc (Victoria).(Head of Department, Aoraki Polytechnic, Timaru, New Zealand) Edited for this site with permission from writer. Personal sentiments have been removed.
Frances More's Fingerithmatic Math System teaches
- A Times Table in just a few minutes
- quick division and long division
- equivalent and improper fractions
- long multiplication, finger calculator
- addition, subtraction
- percentages, decimals
- family of facts
- odds and evens
- patterns to work out higher and lower tables are also learned in one quick and easy lesson.
- Her entire math system is taught in just 90 minutes, immediately raising the confidence levels of the student, and in a lot of cases those of the teacher.
Leaving MORE time in the classroom for further study and other learning projects.
Her teaching resource manuals are currently only available through this site and Amazon.com
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