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Designing a 'modern' abacus for early childhood mathematics
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2009-12-01
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"modabacus" early childhood mathematics educational materials top-down process of design bottom-up process of design abacus counting board AL abacus arithmetic rack
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Copyright (c) 2009 Chrysanthi Skoumpourdi
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Skoumpourdi, C. (2009). Designing a ’modern’ abacus for early childhood mathematics. Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, 7(2), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2009.0220
Abstract
In this paper, the design of a multi-material, the 'modern' abacus ('modabacus'), for developing early childhood mathematics, is proposed. Presenting the main theories for the design of educational materials as well as similar materials and their educational use, it appears that a new material is needed. The 'modabacus' would be an apparatus which could serve as a multi-material for acting out mathematical tasks as well as a material that could hopefully overcome the limits and restrictions of traditional abacuses and counting boards.