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Are you struggling with your child to do basic maths / Is your child weak in calculations,is he counting on fingertips to add small numbers.
Or
Feels Calculation is a phobia or a tough task.
If yes
So the simple Solution is Abacus Education
Lets understand in detail about Abacus Education .
Or If you already know about abacus education and you are planning for your child to join abacus classes then also please go through my blog , it will definitely add more value in your knowledge.
What is Abacus ?
Abacus is a brain development Course launched in India near 2009 to increase the ability of mental calculation with the help of Visualization process of the brain. This course is designed for school going kids from the grade 2 to grade 7 preferably ,
Benefits of Abacus Education
- It Improves concentration power
- It enhances listening skills
- Enhances visualization and imagination power
- Increases self confidence
- Improves speed accuracy in calculation
How Abacus helps in brain Development ? Can Abacus Improves Memory or Methods of Learning
There are 3 methods of learning .
1 Auditory means we learn by hearing.
2 Visual, means learning by watching
3 . Kinesthetic means by doing
Auditory :- The things you hear, You remember for a limited period of time and than we forget
Visual :- The things you see in graphics you remember for a long period of time because the visual image stores in our right side of our brain here i have to mention that brain is divided into two parts right side and left side whatever we hears stores in our left side brain and whatever we see the visual image stores in our right side of brain.
The right side of brain has capacity of holding data for a long period of time that’s why we remember visual things for a long period of time
Kinesthetic :- The things you do yourself, remember forever
Although all the methods are good enough for learning but science proves that visual and kinesthetic methods are the most effective methods in terms of learning anything,
As you see that most of the schools adopted smart classes concept in which teachers explain the concept on screen and students understand the concept very easily because of visual approach and they remember it for a long period of time.
Next example is in our childhood we all have seen Ramayana on television screen, so now if somebody asks about Ramayana we all can easily answer about their character and story instead of any other scripture.
As described above, the importance of the right brain and left brain here. I have to mention that People who are right handed, their left brain works more and the people who are left handed, their right brain works more. Means in an X cross manner .
Left handed People are more creative and their memories are more powerful .
When Both hands work on an abacus tool so that the whole brain get activated and the child utilizes both segments of the brain and sets the beads in the mind , this way Abacus improves Memory.
Which Abacus tool is Best in India
There are two types of abacus tools . One is Chinese and the other is Japanese .
In India, a Japanese tool adopted to introduce abacus education for brain development. This tool is called SoroBon . The tool is divided into two segments of beads , upper beads and lower beads . Upper side is having single bead and Lower side is having four beads.
Each Lower bead has value 1 and each Upper bead has value 5 .
By this Japanese tool calculation is done by sliding beads up and down .
To get the more clarity of the practical usage of this pls click on the Practical
Is Abacus good for children or What is the perfect age for Abacus Education ?
Most of the parents need clarity about the age criteria to join class for their kids.
As I described in the beginning it is designed for grade 2 to 7 so the 6 to 14 year age group is best for abacus education.
There is a scientific reason why this age criteria is best because in this stage the child’s brain is in the developing stage so the brain can be trained to adopt visualization methods and grab the knowledge easily.
So if abacus training is given in childhood, a child can do faster calculation and get desired results in their studies.
Here I want to clarify that Training can be taken at any age as TEACHERS take training in their late age say about the ages of 25 or later also but the performance of a student will be always faster than a teacher because teacher has learnt the technique after his/her age of brain developing stage .
I hope I will be able to clear this topic.
Some parents look at abacus education for their kids in grade 1 also . so let me clarify this also,
If your child is in 1st class and he knows add and less concept by the Indian method very well and aware about the ones ,tens and hundred place value or he can tell for example 3+7=? 2+3= ? very easily than you can prefer abacus classes for your child in grade 1 also .
As there are many ways to do the same thing but firstly we adopt a single method then we use multiple ways to do the same thing in an easy way.
Sometimes grade 1 student feel burden and get confused in both the methods ( Indian and Japanese)
but if your child is in grade 2 , then in India, usually in every school these concepts are taught which means your child knows about the Indian mathematics system.
So Abacus is the easy way of doing calculations so every child must take the training for abacus.
How many levels in abacus classes ?
There are many different Institutes that provide Abacus Education . The real course curriculum consists of Addition , subtraction , Multiplication and Division. Some have divided the full course into 8 levels and some have divided it into 10 levels.
Which Abacus Class is Best ?
There are some factors by which anyone can decide which course is better. First of all one should enquire about the full curriculum of the course, the feedback of the instructor and the individual attention given by the instructor to the child , Limited students batch. Managing Competitions among the children. All these factors decide the quality of a best abacus class.
Click on link to get best abacus class by wisdom abacus , They works in Online/ offline both the mode.
Difference between Abacus and Vedic maths
Now a days for calculation improvement abacus and vedic maths both are popular
So some of the parents have confusion also that which course they should opt for their kid
So let me explain about this also
Abacus improves the visualization process and by visualization ability child improve the calculation starting from single digit addition subtraction to square of a number and getting result upto five digit .
In vedic math focus is on the short procedure of calculation like please refer my another blog on vedic math .
and see the vedic math demo video
Both are used for the purpose of brain development and faster calculation .
Conclusion
Abacus works by learning techniques and methods. It works wonders on the human brain in developing,and makes the best version of your child. It sharpens the mind. By sliding beads, your child learns addition, subtraction,multiplication and division and finally performs mentally and gives the result in their academic as well as in real world The qualities developed by learning abacus reflect in child performance.
Click for the full Details and curriculum on our website .
Visit Youtube channel to see the performance of Abacus student.
Very good information in your blog it has clear my all the doubts about Abacus
It is helpful for me to take the decision of joining abacus class.
Thanks mam for recognise my efforts.
Nice and detailed information
Very informative blog… clear all the doubt of abacus class…Thank you
Thanks Mam
It’s really helpful for all kids
Its increase confidence n concentration level n develops the brain of kids
Go for Abacus 👍👍
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