Napier's Bones
       for
Multiplication







Contents
Vocabulary
bones / strips / stick
multiples of a number
References
Operations
multiply
divide
take a square root
Manipulatives
digital
big paper
smaller paper


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Multiply

Multiply Any Numbers
1st:Think pencil & paper multiplication. The rows on the bones provide the rows of the multiplication problem.
2nd:Arrange bones for one number to the right of the index bone.
3rd:Identify a row for each digit of the multiplier.
    Write the sum of the digits in each diagonal in the row, one digit per diagonal.   Carry as needed. This is the product of the 1-digit number by the multi-digit number.
4th:Lay out the problem as in a pencil and paper multiplication.
    Let each row product serve as the corresponding row of the multiplication.
    Remember to shift, indent, to the left to line up the correct place.
5th:The sum of the shifted rows is the final product.
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Instructions & Manipulatives

Instructions on the Operations
multiplication
division
root extraction
 
Manipulatives
Napier's Bones Digital Manipulatives
Napier's Bones big paper version
Napier's Bones small paper version
digital manipulatives

      Many other manipulatives on many different topics are found at: MathTokens.Com.



References
Azzolino, Agnes "algorithm"
© 2005 at www.mathnstuff.com/math/spoken/here/1words/a/a11.htm
(last modified 2005), visited 10 April 2009.
Azzolino, Agnes "Multiplication & Division"
© 2008 at www.mathnstuff.com/math/algebra/tt15.htm#divide
visited 10 April 2009.
Azzolino, Agnes "multiple"
© 2005 at www.mathnstuff.com/math/spoken/here/1words/m/m29.htm
visited 10 April 2009.
Wikipedia®', Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,
"Napier's bones - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
GNU Free Documentation License at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier%27s_bones
(last modified 16 March 2009, at 20:42 (UTC) ), visited 10 April 2009.

© 2009, October 2010, A. Azzolino
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