Abacus Mind Math Instruction Book Level 3: Step by Step Guide to Excel at Mind Math with Soroban, a Japanese Abacus (Abacus Mind Math - Level - 3 ... ... Book, Workbook 1 of 2, Workbook 2 of 2)

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Abacus Mind Math Instruction Book Level 3 (for teachers and parents): Goal for Level – 3 Subtraction – by borrowing problems or with regrouping problems Addition – practice with carryover problems or with regrouping problems Topics covered: 10 exchange subtraction concepts explained in detail with examples Skill building activities explained Instruction book includes: Examples for each concept with detailed pictures and steps by step instruction on how to calculate and what to tell your students while teaching. Theory behind the formulas explained in simple terms. Over 490 sample problems for teachers and parents to practice the concepts. These sample problems can be used to introduce your child to the concept with effortless ease. Speed Dictation - Included only in this instruction books is progressively challenging and helps you train your child for speed and accuracy Dictation enhances memory power, concentration and comprehension of concept learnt. Skill building activities are explained that help you train your child. Common mistakes made by students with ways to help them avoid making these mistakes are outlined. Exclusive Bonus - Speed Dictation: 400 Speed dictation problems that are progressively challenging included only in this instruction book. Corresponding practice work for children is given in the two workbooks that are sold separately under the following titles. Abacus Mind Math Level 3 Workbook 1 of 2: Excel at Mind Math with Soroban, a Japanese Abacus Abacus Mind Math Level 3 Workbook 2 of 2: Excel at Mind Math with Soroban, a Japanese Abacus Adult Learners: Do you want to learn to work on the abacus and master mind math effectively? This book will be an excellent help for adults who are learning to use the abacus and to ultimately master mind math. The book introduces concepts one at a time, which helps in mastering abacus and increasing speed and accuracy effectively. Practicing mind math with this book will aid in your quest for mastery over mind math with effortless ease. Soroban, the Japanese abacus is a very useful visual tool that helps children ‘see’ numbers as beads while calculating. Soroban perfectly fits with the base 10 number system used at present and provides a systematic method (formulas) to follow while calculating both on the tool and in the mind. Mastering of this tool will enhance your child’s basic math comprehension, speed and accuracy. In general, when children practice mind math, they get a very important sense of achievement that helps raise their confidence as students. You can also see an improvement in their concentration, tenacity, memory power and listening skills. Review: Excellent product and customer service - I purchased the entire curriculum: all Instructor’s guides and all workbooks. I began using the curriculum for my two children, who were 4 and 5. First, (as mentioned before) students do need to know how to read numbers from 1-99, know place values (ones, tens and hundreds) and be able to write numbers. I had no previous exposure to the Soroban; therefore the Instructor’s Book was essential. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly - with dedication and work - my children picked up the skills necessary to use the Soroban. Ten months after starting the curriculum, my children are halfway through book three of the six workbooks. We have taken two weeks, instead of one week to repeat about three lessons which they found to be difficult. Additionally, I am currently taking about three weeks to practice mental math with them, as this skill has provided the greatest challenge (although both children are doing better than I would have predicted). I would highly recommend this curriculum with some caveats: 1. You must be committed to sticking to the 5-6 day per week schedule. 2. This commitment includes practicing with your child daily; it is likely that they cannot do this without a parent unless they are older than 12. (For example, I spend an hour on Mondays introducing the new lesson and practicing. Tuesday-Friday, I spend from 30-45 minutes with my children as they practice/do Soroban homework). I have found the customer support to be extremely helpful. They have emailed me detailed responses and spent a good deal of time on a phone call to answer some of my questions and concerns. If you have the time and discipline, this program can work very well for your child/student. I would never have imagined that my 5 and 6 year old would be capable of doing three digit mental calculations before I started using this program; it really does work and I am hoping they have plans to release additional levels that introduce multiplication, division, percentages, decimals and negative numbers for children. Review: Great course for learning abacus! - This series really taught me to use an abacus! I had a knee replacement, and those first weeks are painful, even with painkillers. This series kept my mind off the pain and the drills train your mind. I felt like an expert when i was done with the series. Get all the books and work them in order. Buy a nice abacus online, and have fun learning!