How to Count to 99 with Your Fingers (with Pictures)

2025 Author: Samantha Chapman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-24 13:28

If your learning style is more visual or physical, rather than logical or mathematical, it may be easier for you to do the math with your fingers rather than in mind. But you only have ten fingers and that limits you to very simple calculations, right? In fact, you can count to 99 with your fingers using the "chisanbop", an abacus-like method of finger counting. Once you get used to it, you can solve more complex calculations, such as multiplying two-digit numbers with your fingers.

Steps

Step 1. Note that the following images are intended to demonstrate how to correctly stretch your fingers and fold the rest

To use these techniques without error, however, keep your fingers straight and place them on a flat surface. Don't fold them under your hands when doing the calculations.

Step 2. Learn to count to 9 with your right hand

1. It starts with the index, which corresponds to One.

   

2. Count once for each finger down to the little finger.

   Two

   

3. Three

   

4. Four

   

5. The thumb itself corresponds to Five

   

6. Continue counting with the other four fingers, one at a time.

   Six

   

7. Seven

   

8. Eight

   

9. Nine

   

   Step 3. Learn to count the tens with your left hand

   1. Using the same technique as before, start with the index, which corresponds to Ten.

      

   2. Count ten to ten on each finger down to the little finger.

      Winds

      

   3. Thirty

      

   4. Forty

      

   5. The left thumb itself corresponds to Fifty.

      

   6. Continue counting with the other four fingers, one at a time.

      Sixty

      

   7. seventy

      

   8. eighty

      

   9. Ninety

      

      Method 1 of 1: Examples

      

      Step 1. Nineteen

      

      Step 2. Twenty-one

      

      Step 3. Forty seven

      

      Step 4. Ninety-nine

      Advice

      • This method of finger counting gives children a way to learn more complex math concepts than calculus 1 to 10. They will likely be better once they learn it.
      • Count with your fingers from one to 99.
      • Learn to count with the binary system, applying it to this method. You can count to (2 ^ 10) -1 = 1023.