On May 20, in Ho Chi Minh City. In Ho Chi Minh City, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Record Association in collaboration with the Vietnam Record Organization - VietKings organized the 5nd meeting of Vietnamese recordkeepers with the theme "Enough sunshine, flowers will bloom - Enough vision to see opportunities".
On this occasion, the Vietnam Record Organization officially set a record for Ms. Huynh Thi Thu Linh as the first teacher in Vietnam to research, improve and successfully apply the multilingual thinking math program: Advanced Finger Math, Advanced Finger Math, Finger Math and Soroban to encode atomic numbers in the chemical element table, contributing to skill development, orientation and career development map for children; increase the effectiveness of student learning and teacher teaching.
In the process of teaching students and her two daughters (6 years old and 9 years old), Linh discovered that the children were afraid of math and lacked concentration. Children who learn Soroban are dependent on the Soroban abacus, without the abacus, they cannot calculate.
“I came up with a way to help her get rid of the abacus, paper and pen and still give the correct answer quickly. Children use two hands as a virtual abacus, memorizing sequences of numbers to do calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; can calculate numbers up to tens, hundreds; Once calculated, can memorize long calculations over 10 calculations. Therefore, children can both train the two hemispheres of the brain, while listening and seeing. Just by looking at the number or listening to the teacher read it, you can calculate the correct and fast answer. This is extremely effective for problems applying multiple-choice tests," Linh shared.
Ms. Huynh Thi Thu Linh (right) teaches two children a new multilingual math program in English.
This method can be applied at any time. When going to the market, going to the supermarket, children can calculate the amount of money to buy goods very quickly. The learning time for children from grade 3 is about 4 months, children who are not yet literate or grade 1 may be more than 1 year.
In order to be set by the Vietnam Record Organization, Ms. Linh studied for 2 years. Realizing that this method can be applied to many different languages, Linh has translated from Vietnamese into English, Japanese and German to increase children's ability to both learn math and learn foreign languages. For children who solve math problems in English, the teacher will read or write the numbers in English letters.
Receiving a medal of honor and a diploma for setting a record for her achievements, Ms. Huynh Thi Thu Linh shared: “I would like to introduce this research work abroad. I currently teach and guide two children to set a Vietnamese record. In the future, I hope to have more educational exhibitions to introduce this new method to more people.”
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