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Summer is all about fun and games. And that is why the Math Monkey Summer Knowledge Jungle is in full swing!
The habitat is the ideal place for children ages 6-10 to have a great time while playing games with their peers. Meanwhile, these young people will work in troops to learn new math skills that will give them an advantage.
“Our summer program is designed to give kids a leg up in a fast-paced, challenging world,” said Kirsten Fisch, president & CEO (Top Banana) of Math Monkey. “Using a unique technique known as Vedic math, children can take a break from the heat, have lots of fun and hone their math skills with old and new friends. The Math Monkey Summer Knowledge Jungle emphasizes the exciting world of mental math.”
Certified Math Monkey instructors will use carefully developed games and activities inspired by more than 35 years of research.
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Wee 'Monkeys' multiply, fast
A Lake Mary center uses an unusual math method said to be from India.
Sandra Pedicini Sentinel Staff Writer
September 21, 2007
LAKE MARY - In classrooms across the United States, students labor to learn multiplication tables and other traditional math techniques.
Math Monkey, a company based in Miami that recently opened a franchise in Lake Mary, wants to teach children in a more intriguing way. The company claims to help children better understand numbers through Vedic mathematics, a system designed to turn youngsters' brains into high-speed calculators.
Vedic math is an Indian system supposedly derived from ancient texts.
"It just livens the mind," said Kenneth Williams, a British scholar and Vedic mathematics expert and now the company's chief academic officer. "Really you shouldn't have to rely on a calculator or pencil and paper for something the mind is quite capable of doing without them."
The company says its mental gymnastics, combined with simian gimmicks such as monkey masks and squeaky toy gorillas that students pound during races to finish problems, get children excited about numbers.
But Vedic math remains a mystery across the United States. Many experts aren't familiar with it. American educators don't commonly use it, said Francis "Skip" Fennell, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Some children who had been lagging behind in math in regular courses recently started the weekly classes. Parents of other students say their children do fine in the subject, but they simply wanted to give them an academic edge.
"It's a way for kids to not be afraid of the numbers," said Jodi Beyer, who enrolled her daughter Sammi, a 7th-grader at Lake Mary Preparatory School
Sammi has enjoyed the classes, and so Beyer earlier this week brought her second-grader, Tate, to a trial class. "I'm already really good," Tate said after the class. "When I get into multiplication and all that . . . my mom said it's going to be really hard. Then I'm going to need Math Monkey."
Classes began earlier this month. Much of what students are learning right now is based on "complements of 10." A number's complement is the one that helps it add up to 10. For instance, seven's complement is three.
In one class for what's dubbed the "orangutan troop" -- which on Monday included three children from 10 to 12 -- teachers led students through multiplication exercises.
Rather than simply spouting off 56 when teachers ask what eight times seven equals, students try a more complicated method using eight and seven and their complements, two and three.
Going through several steps to answer a multiplication problem most students have already memorized may seem laborious. But teachers say the steps will become helpful when problems get more complex.
Even without all the monkeying around, Vedic math can be more interesting to children than traditional learning exercises, said Thomasenia Adams, an associate professor of math education at the University of Florida.
Math Monkey founder Kirsten Fisch discovered Vedic math as a human-resources executive working in India. Not a typical "math person," Fisch said she found herself fascinated by the workings of the Vedic system.
"That little light bulb went off in my head," said Fisch, a former early-childhood teacher. "As a teacher, I decided this was something really special."
Math Monkey says that almost 100 years ago, an Indian scholar reconstructed the ancient math system from Sanskrit texts known as the Vedas.
But Williams said the origin of Vedic math is a subject of controversy. Others have not been able to find evidence of the math formulas in the Vedas, he said.
Williams remains a believer in the system's ancient roots.
Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji, the scholar who claimed to find the math system in the Vedas, "was a religious icon," Williams said. "I don't see any reason why he would lie about it . . . People in the West just accept the Vedic math as it is. Mathematically it's beyond dispute."
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