Sharing Garden — Lesson 101: Sharing Garden test
Picture the abacus in your head →Lesson 101: Abacus division test for kids
Level 8, Sharing Garden. 12 answers on the beads and 3 in your head. Get 12 right for the Garden Sunflower sticker.
What your child does, card by card
Sharing Garden test. Facts and sharing. PlayType opens the lesson: “Test time. No hints. Show what you know.”
Then the test itself, 12 tasks without a ring: work out 12 ÷ 3, work out 42 ÷ 7, work out 56 ÷ 8, work out 81 ÷ 9, work out 96 - 4 × 20, work out 16 - 4 × 4, go from 0 to 20, work out 20 + 4, work out 72 - 3 × 20, work out 12 - 3 × 4, go from 0 to 20 and work out 20 + 4. Each gets one try, and a counter above shows how far along your child is.
Then the beads hide and the sums 36 ÷ 6, 63 ÷ 7 and 80 ÷ 4 are done in the head, the answer picked from 6, 9, 20 and 40.
You passed! Sharing Garden is done. Next: Mind Castle!
What this lesson trains
About five minutes and 15 answers. Altogether the child makes 20 bead moves (6 with the top bead, 14 with bottom beads). Clearing comes up 2 times. The largest is 96: tens and ones. Then 3 quick looks in your head.
The sum sheet
The lower window shows the column as a child would write it on paper: one number under another, the current line in yellow, ticks on the lines done. The abacus carries the running total from line to line.
What PlayBuddy and PlayType say
PlayType: “Test time. No hints. Show what you know.”
PlayBuddy: “Click Let's Begin, or press Enter!”
PlayBuddy: “Here comes the last one.”
PlayType: “Now do it in your head.”
The test and its sticker
15 answers, one try each, with no green ring and no help. 12 or more right give the Garden Sunflower sticker; fewer, and PlayBuddy says “Not yet. One more try and you've got this!” and Play again glows. Nothing earned before is taken away.