Abacus Vocational Education

Product Description

Abacus is a computing skill which uses physical elements to relate answer and memory! Handling the abacus instrument with both the hands helps in triggering the left and right brain. The left brain is in charge of logic, literacy & numerical, analytical and sequential facts whereas the right brain is responsible for color, music, imagination, sense, rhyming, daydreaming, patterned and overall thinking.
Before computers and calculators, the abacus teach children about numbers. From ancient times, teachers have been teaching mathematics using an abacus. The ancient calculating tool puts math at your student's fingertips, increasing visual and auditory memory, concentration and improving their attitudes toward learning
The abacus is still in use today by shopkeepers in Asia and "Chinatowns" in North America. The use of the abacus is still taught in Asian schools, and some few schools in the West. Blind children are taught to use the abacus where their sighted counterparts would be taught to use paper and pencil to perform calculations.
One particular use for the abacus is teaching children simple mathematics and especially multiplication; the abacus is an excellent substitute for rote memorization of multiplication tables, a particularly detestable task for young children. The abacus is also an excellent tool for teaching other base numbering systems since it easily adapts itself to any base
In this entire course we have taken maths as a medium or tool to move the beads and fingers. The effect is not only shown in maths but in all subjects. Here we give the children the real abacus. It is clear from the research that the right brain gets activated tremendously when the child touches the abacus. Our children start to learn and this helps them increase the concentration level. Because in this we have some special practice called oral calculations.
We call out the sums and the child is expected to work out with the real abacus and give the answers. Here we don’t repeat the question. Thus we increase their listening capacity. And when the child is moving to the next level he/she is supposed to work out multiplication sums of higher digits. For example when the child is expected to multiply a five digit number by another five digit number he or she is expected to recite the tables twenty five times (All different ones). Naturally the concentration increases. They are expected to remember all these so their memory power also becomes stronger.
MIND ABACUS
After giving enough practice to move the beads (+, -,
-, /) they are simultaneously taught how to use the mind abacus where imagination involves.
The child has to imagine the abacus in the mind and move the beads in the air as he/she does with the real abacus. With the same finger movement as we use thumb to add the lower beads and index finger to add the upper bead and minus the lower and upper bead as well.
Slowly we train the children to solve all the sums which they work out with abacus, and without abacus. Here we train them to visualize the abacus. This becomes the magic moment where they start; getting trained to use their right brain. When they go for the higher levels they are expected to multiply a five digit number by another five digit number. Here again they have to recite the tables, 25 different tables. Naturally their concentration and memory power increases. Over a period of time we can see a remarkable change in all their performances not just in maths but in all other subjects.