My wife homeschools, and the math curriculum she uses uses a very similar method from the beginning.
My daughter knows "12" as "One-ten two" and "33" as "three-ten three" and says it that way. She also knows those mean twelve and thirty-three, but for the purposes of the math program she uses the place terminology.
We can only hope that it will give her a better understanding of what's going on than pure memorization, and the jury's out until she's older, but it's a fascinating way to teach.
I sometimes wish we were all born with eight or sixteen fingers, but that's just the CS/EE bias in me talking.
My wife homeschools, and the math curriculum she uses uses a very similar method from the beginning.
My daughter knows "12" as "One-ten two" and "33" as "three-ten three" and says it that way. She also knows those mean twelve and thirty-three, but for the purposes of the math program she uses the place terminology.
We can only hope that it will give her a better understanding of what's going on than pure memorization, and the jury's out until she's older, but it's a fascinating way to teach.
I sometimes wish we were all born with eight or sixteen fingers, but that's just the CS/EE bias in me talking.