Math, like reading, is often taught with an emphasis on a bottom-up method (code or calculations first) or top-down method (meaning or principles first). When you watch the student in the video clip adapting the Oksapmin system to solve a math problem, do you consider the way he goes about solving that problem as an example of a bottom-up (code-first/calculations first) or top-down (meaning first/principles first) method?

If we closely observe the Oksapmin method of counting, it is counting numbers by counting of body parts and the bottom up method is followed where normally a student will start from him thumb and call body part names as he counts the upper periphery of the body.

If a student has to solve simple addition, he would simply start from counting his fingers irrespective of which finger to start with. Hence instead of following principle he jumps to calculations

nikitavidya0 nikitavidya0 · Answer 2 · 2021-12-30T15:38:29+01:00

Math learning is based on a bottom-up approach for solving maths problems.

The bottom-up approach involves making people do the calculation in the first step and then deriving meaning out of it. Thus, people process information from data in order to make their perceptions.

The video clip clearly presented that students would count on their fingers and not account for which finger to start counting from.

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