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.
Abacus Math Getting Started 3 – Multiplication Facts Tools and Flash Anzan
The following is a transcript of the video. Welcome to the third video of our how to get started training on rightlobemath.com. In the first video of this series we looked at how to get started on abacus training. In the second video we learned how to use the mental training module. If you haven’t
Abacus Math Getting Started 2 – Introduction To Mental Math Online Learning
Next take a look at our facts training program and flash anzan, getting started 3. The following is a transcript of the video. Welcome back to the second webcast in our short series on how to get started training on rightlobemath.com. In this video we’re going to introduce a second training module, mental calculation. We’ve
Abacus Math Getting Started 1 – Introduction to Online Soroban Learning
Next we look at our mental math training program getting started 2. The following is a transcript of the video. Welcome to a short series of webcasts we put together to help you and your child get up and running on our early math program from rightlobemath.com as quickly as possible. Sasha and I have
How to learn on RightLobeMath
Welcome to a short series of webcasts we put together to help you and your child get up and running on our early math program as quickly as possible.
What Abacus Should You Buy?
To get started with the RightLobeMath.com online math program, we need an abacus or preferably a Japanese Soroban which can be purchased at anytime on Rightlobemath.com. We highly recommend in the beginning of a student’s abacus training that they use a “physical” abacus and not a “digital” abacus. The reason for suggesting the use of a
Aging, Alzheimer’s and The Abacus
We know as our bodies age so too will our brains. Just as it is important to keep our bodies in good physical condition we also need to keep our minds active and our brains learning throughout life. We mostly associate the loss of memory and decreased brain function with age. But research has shown
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