More Keyboard Skills
Fingerithmatic is a one off teaching lesson and there is very little need for follow up tuition, therefore Frances is always looking for new students and new concepts or strings to her bow..
Parents use the system to teach all the other tables to their children after a single teaching session with Frances and the schools that have her come usually watch the system in action in the classroom and follow it up with Professional Development after school, therefore, when her business telephone went quiet, Frances knew that she needed some more publicity to become known again.
What could she come up with to grab that attention this time?
In October 2001 she received an email from Holland, it was from her Aunt, the letter was very short and simply stated that “Thank you for your mail, but I can’t type well.” How could she teach her aunt to type so that they could communicate properly without the frustration of having to search the keyboard for every single key?
She thought about it for a few moments and then started to teach her fingers. Yes! Her fingers could type without her looking at the keys. She practiced at every opportunity, there was no need to have a keyboard to practice on.
Before even seeing if it would work on anyone else she rang the Timaru Herald to let them know that her fingers were back in business again.
TV3 were also notified through Mark Price who had interviewed her for the maths story, permission was given for a follow up story and filming was set to take place in Dunedin where the memory concept had taken firm hold at Green Island school.
A whole class of 11 and 12 year olds were taught the typing system and after one hour 3 students volunteered to sit down at a computer and find the alphabet keys in order and in front of a TV camera, blind-folded. The results were simply amazing!!!! Frances had tears in her eyes as each of the students performed the alphabet task and pressed keys at her direction. Then the cameraman wanted her to teach him the technique and promised to practice every day.
After the film crew left, Frances went on to teach two, 2 finger typists; a female teacher in 20 minutes and a male teacher in 30 minutes. His hands had been injured while fixing car engines and playing around with motor- bikes. Most of the time he was rubbing his sore knuckles. They weren't used to the fine motor skills.
Since 2001 she has taught many people her typing technique and sold multi sensory typing tutor books all over the world. One woman who had good 2 finger typing skills managed to learn to type with all 8 fingers and 2 thumbs in less than 5 minutes, without looking at the keyboard.
Frances More was born in the South Island of New Zealand. She was raised on a farm and her family continue to have land and animals to care for.
She became interested in teaching when her middle son was diagnosed as having a SLD or Specific Learning Disability at the age of 9.
From 1996-99 she worked with adults that had fallen through the cracks in the education system and it was her wanting to help them succeed in life that motivated her to find a way to teach mathematics. Most of her adult students had not mastered their basic times tables and therefore could not perform higher mathematical problem solving techniques.
On finding the amazing Fingerithmatic Teaching System she then used it on her astounded students who encouraged her to go on television, radio and write books. After traveling all around New Zealand teaching mathematics she wondered what else our wonderful fingers could learn....in fact she is still finding out! More and More each day!
