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© Dr. Shank’s Chisenbop Gloves |
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I’m a fan of chisenbop or fingermath for students with learning disabilities. However, I believe many with LD will need a way to visualize what they are learning. For that reason, I created these chisenbop gloves. They are simple to make. (Feel free to make them for your students or child. However, if someone wants to mass produce them, we need to talk!) Use a black permanent marker on latex or nylon gloves. A solid color would be better to use than the transparent variety. Eventually, you will move the students away from using the gloves.
Take a look at the online tutorial to see how fingermath works. The right hand represents ones and the left hand represents tens, just as the columns do in written math problems. I used dots for ones and “boxes” for tens. If you have been working with manipulatives (hopefully at least three times for kids with LD before moving to representational and then symbolic modes), you can tell them that each “box” holds 10 ones. The star in front of a number represents that the thumb is also up.
If you have never used fingermath, play with it some. I think you will be surprised how quickly you can do calculations with this method after some practice. To learn more, check out The Complete Book of Fingermath listed in the resources. |