[PW] Re: Women's, Mother's and Traditional Arithmetic

[Shari Haber]

Sylvia-

Maybe you were doing chisanbop:

          http://www.megalink.net/~jones/chisanbop.html

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sylvia Milne" <sylviamilne at btinternet.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:05 AM
Subject: [PW] Re: Women's, Mother's and Traditional Arithmetic


>I can remember doing my nine times table using my fingers.
> I wonder if I was doing "women's arithmetic".
> Anyway, this website
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/barry.r.clarke/zfingers.htm
> or  http://tinyurl.com/nynaw  shows how to do it.
>
> I quote " Although applicable for tables 1 to 9, it turns out that it 
> is
> easiest to use on the 7, 8 and 9 times tables, the ones that students
> traditionally have the greatest trouble with"
> The website has diagrams which make it easier to understand.
>
> Sylvia Milne
>
> Please visit me at
> http://www.sylviamilne.btinternet.co.uk/plucked/
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JT Thompson" <jtthompson at eircom.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:12 AM
> Subject: [PW] Re: Women's, Mother's and Traditional Arithmetic
>
>
>> The book with the references to women's arithmetic is The Nothing
>> That Is: A Natural History of Zero, by Robert and Ellen Kaplan.
>>
>> Quote: "You will see women bending and braiding their fingers in the
>> market, using what some of them call "women's arithmetic", others
>> "the arithmetic of Marseilles".
>>
>> The authors talk a bit more about the women's arithmetic, making it
>> sound mouthwateringly easy (and a wonderful game to learn), but they
>> don't make it clear how exactly it's done.
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