Ms. Huynh Thi Thu Linh sets a Vietnamese record.

On May 20th, in Ho Chi Minh City, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Record Holders Association, in collaboration with the Vietnam Record Organization - VietKings, organized the 52nd Vietnam Record Holders' Gathering program with the theme "Enough sunshine, flowers will bloom - Enough vision, opportunities will appear".

On this occasion, the Vietnam Record Organization officially recognized Ms. Huynh Thi Thu Linh as the first teacher in Vietnam to research, improve, and successfully apply a multilingual mental math program: Finger Math Super, Finger Math Advanced, Finger Math and Soroban to encode atomic numbers in the periodic table of chemical elements, contributing to skill development, career orientation and mapping, helping children develop skills; increasing the effectiveness of student learning and teacher teaching.

While teaching her students and her two daughters (6 and 9 years old), Ms. Linh discovered that the children were afraid of math and lacked concentration. Those learning Soroban abacus were also dependent on it; without it, they couldn't do calculations.

"I came up with a way to help children get the correct answers quickly, without needing abacus or pen and paper. Children use both hands like a virtual abacus, memorizing sequences of numbers to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; they can calculate sequences of numbers up to tens or hundreds; and in one go, they can memorize calculations longer than 10 calculations. Therefore, children can train both hemispheres of their brain, as well as listen and see. Just by looking at the numbers or listening to the teacher read them, they can calculate the correct answer quickly. This is extremely effective for math problems in multiple-choice exams," Ms. Linh shared.

Ms. Huynh Thi Thu Linh (on the right) teaches her two children a multilingual thinking math program using a new method in English.

This method can be applied anytime. When shopping at the market or supermarket, children can quickly calculate the cost of goods mentally. The learning time for children in grade 3 is about 4 months, while for children who don't know how to read or are in grade 1, it may take more than a year.

To have her record recognized by the Vietnam Record Organization, Ms. Linh spent two years researching. Recognizing that this method could be applied to many different languages, Ms. Linh translated the method from Vietnamese into English, Japanese, and German to enhance children's ability to learn both math and foreign languages. For children solving math problems in English, the teacher would read or write the numbers in English.

Receiving the medal of honor and certificate for her record-breaking achievement, Ms. Huynh Thi Thu Linh shared: “I hope to introduce this research project abroad. Currently, I am teaching and guiding two children to set Vietnamese records. In the future, I hope to have more exhibitions on education to introduce this new method to more people.”

Text and photos: KIEU DIEM

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