We are a Year 4 Class at Woodford Primary School. We hope you will enjoy reading our blog as we journey through this next year. You can find information about this term and some activities on the additional pages. We hope they are useful.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Counting with the Soroban

Click on the image on the left to see how to count with a Japanese Soroban.

We are making our own simple sorobans. Have a look at our results tomorrow!




This next video shows how to use a Soroban.

5 comments:

  1. I think that the Soroban will help with people who dont understand maths much and will help them improve there maths and the start of the Soroban is working out well this is a really good week but this Soroban is hard t make.

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  2. I think the Soroban would help Japanese children a lot with their maths homework! I have learnt how to use a Soroban and I think it is a great way to learn your maths!!
    Did you know that Japan has the 4th largest population in the world and there is only 35% of land to live on, the rest is mountains and volcanoes!

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    1. If you search YouTube Maisie you will find some amazing videos which show how quickly Japanese children, from a very young age, can add / subtract many numbers. It's phenomenal to watch.

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  3. Mary Sobey (Maisie's Nan)21 February 2012 at 19:37

    I think that class 4 at Woodford Primary School have been very productive finding out lots of interesting facts about Japan and the people who live there.I am sure they will all agree that the lifestyle in Japan is very different to the way that we live in England,but children all over the World are the same and are able to learn about each others customs and lifestyles.It is great to see that all class 4 are working together and having fun while learning.I look forward to reading more blog.Well done class 4

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    1. I think year 4 have learnt some interesting facts and knowledge about japan, from looking at their posters they look like we took lots of time working on them!!! Go year 4!!!!!!!I hope we learn some more wonderful and maybe some bazar facts over the week!!

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