Why Micro Learning Works—And How We Built It Into SumoMath.com
Traditional math lessons often try to cover too much at once. Students get overwhelmed, concepts blur, and retention drops.Micro learning breaks lessons into small, focused chunks—typically 3–5 minutes per concept. Research shows it improves retention by up to 80% compared to long-form sessions. Why it works: Every video lesson on SumoMath platform is designed as
How SumoMath helps teachers build visual number sense
Too many students still leave math block unsure what the numbers mean. Visual models light the path, but number sense sticks only when kids put in the reps. That’s the heartbeat of SumoMath: daily microlearning sessions that keep practice short, focused, and doable inside a real classroom schedule. Teachers tell us SumoMath fits because it
How visual math learning is changing elementary education—and why traditional methods are falling short.
The way we’ve been teaching arithmetic for decades has a fundamental flaw: it asks children to work with abstract symbols before they understand what those symbols mean. Here’s what’s changing: Traditional: “7 + 8 = 15. Memorize it.” Visual Math: “Watch the beads. See how 7 and 8 become 15.” The difference? → Understanding vs.
Why teach arithmetic with an ancient abacus?
Why teach arithmetic with an ancient abacus? 🧮 (Spoiler: It’s not just for nostalgia) Picture this: A 5-year-old calculating 347 + 589 in their head. No fingers. No paper. No “carry the one” panic. Sounds like magic? It’s actually soroban. Here’s the thing about traditional arithmetic: Most kids memorize procedures without understanding what’s actually happening.
How We Teach Arithmetic And So Much More Using The Abacus
For many the use of an abacus to teach children, or adults, arithmetic is not well known or understood. Since the abacus originated in Asia thousands of years ago, the abacus and its use are common knowledge in that part of the world. This doesn’t mean that all Asians are skilled abacus users. It simply
What To Do If No Sound In Audible Mental Training
Some users have encountered the situation where they do not hear any voice while attempting to run an audible mental training session. In most cases the reason for this issue is the browser and the underlying operating system have lost communication. Here a few simple steps you can try to get audibles working again. All
Counting Is The Basis For Learning Math
Learning to count is important for all children in developing their math skills. The idea of number sense is the basis for all later math learning. Counting is a companion skill to numerosity which is the ability to discriminate sets of objects on the basis of quantity of items. Learning to count is a first
How Are Numbers Taught in Asia Compared to Western Countries?
When it comes to early math education, learning basic numeracy and developing a sense of numbers, Asian children consistently outperform their peers in the West. Many have looked into the intricacies of early math education in countries like China, Japan, and Korea. Without getting too deep into the research, let’s look at a few simple contrasting
Generate the Famous Fibonacci Sequence on The Abacus!
This is a transcript of the video. In this video we are going to take a look at an interesting activity using our soroban to generate the famous Fibonacci Number Sequence. Any term in the sequence is generated by summing the two previous terms. To generate term #7 which is the number 13, you would
The Abacus – A Math Manipulative Students Will Use for Life
Teachers in schools around the world experiment with lots of different math manipulatives to help children visualize and conceptualize the meaning of numeric symbols and basic math operations. We use number dice, cards, tiles and boards, connecting rods and blocks, two color counters and ten frames, number lines, place value blocks, dominoes and shape counters.