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Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic?

Posted By: Gregg Cattanach
Date: Sunday, 3 January 2010, at 3:36 p.m.

In Response To: Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic? (Lucky Jim)

I recommend this: http://www.bkgm.com/articles/McCool/cluster.html

I like it because you only have to add up a few numbers, (that usually end in a zero), and you actually end up knowing both numbers, not just the difference. You also get to count large numbers of the checkers (usually 10 of them) in one swoop. This system takes almost no 'mental arithmetic'.

If it is hard to remember the first number, use your hands to remember it: (extend a finger in order to represent 1-5, extend all fingers but one to represent 6-0, left hand is 10s digit, right hand is 1s digit.)

Messages In This Thread

• Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic?
  Lucky Jim -- Sunday, 3 January 2010, at 11:55 a.m.
  • Practice
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 3 January 2010, at 12:18 p.m.
    • Practice
      Dan Pelton -- Monday, 4 January 2010, at 10:58 a.m.
  • Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic?
    alex21 -- Sunday, 3 January 2010, at 1:05 p.m.
  • Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic?
    W Womack -- Sunday, 3 January 2010, at 2:46 p.m.
  • Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic?
    Gregg Cattanach -- Sunday, 3 January 2010, at 3:36 p.m.
  • Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic?
    Bob Koca -- Sunday, 3 January 2010, at 4:48 p.m.
    • Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic?
      Jason Lee -- Sunday, 3 January 2010, at 5:04 p.m.
      • Any tips for pip counting techniques when terrible at mental arithmetic?
        Chuck Bower -- Monday, 4 January 2010, at 2:11 p.m.
      • Joy of Mathematics DVD series
        Chuck Bower -- Monday, 4 January 2010, at 2:14 p.m.