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BIG NUMBER WORKSHOP provides instructions and tools to teach 5-7 year olds big quantities and numbers. The goal is to immunize the children before they go to school or undo the damage inflicted in the first grade. To those who are familiar with big numbers, elementary math has nothing to be afraid of.

In BIG NUMBER WORKSHOP, you teach the same things school teaches and more, but you arrive to them through computing (in the modern sense of this world).

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The understanding of big numbers allows preschoolers to learn and teach themselves. They start absorbing information and seeking it. Today, more than ever before, numeracy is an essential and enabling knowledge.

Through their school years, the student may repeatedly return to the tokens on the grid to illustrate and elucidate mathematical ideas. Following this simple device, they quickly arrive to computer programming.

BIG NUMBER WORKSHOP is designed to help parents spend time with their kids, teaching them something that governments don't.

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BIG NUMBER WORKSHOP is about enabling. First and fast, the students learn to build and name big numbers. Digits and charts of addition come next.

Numeracy emerges as a practical and an unquestionably useful skill. Counting on a two-dimensional grid leads to the discovery of quantity, which we can compare, capture, copy, convey etc. Reviewing different ways to embody quantities using the same tokens and grids, kids learn the positional method and appreciate how helpful it is for counting big quantities.

The students use lines of tokens to build big positional numbers in different bases. Then they learn long addition as counting. Next step is to use an ordered set of tokens - like the ubiquitous Hindu-Arabic digits - and to perform addition in writing.