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What is Abacus ?

Functions of Abacus

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An abacus instrument allows performing basic operations like Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. It can also carry out operations such as counting up to decimal places, calculates sums having negative numbers etc.

Visualization

Ms. Kimiko Kawano, Researcher, Nippon Medical School, Centre for Informatics and Sciences, believes that abacus users simply visualise an image of an abacus in their head. They do not replace the image with words.

Concentration

Decker Avenue School, California, researched the effects of abacus training on children in the classroom. The study indicated that increased concentration among the abacus students was one of the predominant effects of the training program.

Photographic memory

Ms. Shizuko Amaiwa is also of the opinion that the beneficial effect of abacus training is the improvement in memory. As a result, abacus learners were found to score higher than non-abacus learners…

Logical reasoning

Ms. Shizuko Amaiwa, Professor, Shinshu University, observed that advanced abacus learners were found to have received desirable effects in solving certain types of mathematical problems compared to non-abacus learners.

Recall

Ms. Kimiko Kawano, Researcher, Nippon Medical School, Center for Informatics and Sciences, has stated that, “some abacus experts use their ability for memorizing whole page of textbook or years in history. The ability developed by abacus can be used effectively in different ways” such as the capability to recall.

Advantages of Abacus :

Dr. Toshio Hayashi, Director, Research Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (RIAST), believes that starting abacus learning at a very young age is useful in activating the brain of kids.

He also says, “We can activate the nerve cells by providing “stimuli” like moving fingers and talking aloud.”

When a child works on abacus the finger movements of both the hands activate the censors of the brain , the right hand coordinates with the left part of the brain and left hand coordinates with right part of the brain.

This facilitates the functioning of “The whole brain” and helps in added intellect, thereby creating ‘child maths prodigy’.