How Abacus Education Helps in Brain Development | Abacus Education Benefits for Kids

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 does your child feel that calculation is a phobia or a tough task?

If yes,

Then the simple solution is Abacus Education.

Let’s understand in detail about Abacus Education.

If you already know about abacus education and you are planning for your child to join abacus classes, then also please go through this blog — it will definitely add more value to your knowledge.

What is Abacus?

Abacus is a brain development course launched in India around 2009 to increase the ability of mental calculation with the help of the visualization process of the brain.

This course is designed for school-going kids from 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 and accuracy in calculation

How Abacus Helps in Brain Development (Methods of Learning)

There are 3 methods of learning:

1. Auditory – Learning by hearing
2. Visual – Learning by watching
3. Kinesthetic – Learning by doing

1. Auditory Method
   The things you hear, you remember for a limited period of time and then you forget.
2. Visual Method
   The things you see in graphics, you remember for a long period of time because the visual image stores in the right side of our brain.

Here I have to mention that the brain is divided into two parts — right side and left side.

Whatever we hear stores in our left side brain.

Whatever we see as a visual image stores in our right side brain.

The right side of the brain has the capacity of holding data for a long period of time. That’s why we remember visual things for a long period.

3. Kinesthetic Method
   The things you do yourself, you remember forever.

Although all the methods are good enough for learning, science proves that visual and kinesthetic methods are the most effective methods in terms of learning anything.

For example:

• Most schools have adopted smart class concepts where teachers explain the concept on screen. Students understand the concept very easily because of the visual approach and remember it for a long period of time.

• In childhood, we all have seen the TV show Ramayan on television. If somebody asks about Ramayan, we can easily answer about its characters and story because we watched it visually.

Can Abacus Improve Memory?

As described above, the importance of the right brain and left brain plays a major role.

People who are right-handed, their left brain works more.
People who are left-handed, their right brain works more.

It works in a cross (X) manner.

Left-handed people are often considered more creative and may have stronger visualization abilities.

When both hands work on an abacus tool, the whole brain gets activated. The child utilizes both segments of the brain and sets the beads in the mind.

In this way, Abacus improves memory and mental calculation power.

Which Abacus Tool is Best in India?

There are two types of abacus tools:

• Chinese Abacus
• Japanese Abacus

In India, the Japanese tool is widely adopted to introduce abacus education for brain development.

This tool is called Soroban.

The tool is divided into two segments of beads:

• Upper beads (1 bead)
• Lower beads (4 beads)
• Each lower bead has value 1
• Each upper bead has value 5

By this Japanese tool, calculation is done by sliding beads up and down.

To get more clarity of the practical usage, you can watch the demo video here:
https://youtu.be/hRSZ9fJyKSc

Is Abacus Good for Children? (Perfect Age for Abacus Education)

Most parents need clarity about the age criteria to join classes for their kids.

As described earlier, it is designed for Grade 2 to 7. So the 6 to 14 year age group is best for abacus education.

Scientific Reason At this stage, the child’s brain is in the developing stage. The brain can be trained to adopt visualization methods and grab knowledge easily.

If abacus training is given in childhood, a child can do faster calculation and get desired results in studies.

Training can be taken at any age. Teachers also take training at the age of 25 or later. But the performance of a student will always be faster than a teacher because the student has learned the technique during the brain development stage.

Can Grade 1 Students Join Abacus?

Some parents look at abacus education for kids in Grade 1 also.

If your child:

• Knows addition and subtraction concept by the Indian method
• Is aware of ones, tens, and hundred place values
• Can easily answer questions like 3+7=? or 2+3=?

Then you can prefer abacus classes in Grade 1 also.

Sometimes Grade 1 students feel burdened and get confused between both methods (Indian and Japanese).

But if your child is in Grade 2, then usually in every school these concepts are already taught. That means your child knows about the Indian mathematics system.

So abacus becomes an easy way of doing calculations.

Try Our Online Abacus Simulator

Difference Between Abacus and Vedic Maths

Nowadays, for calculation improvement, both Abacus and Vedic Maths are popular.

Parents often get confused about which course they should choose for their child.

Abacus improves the visualization process. By visualization ability, a child improves calculation starting from single-digit addition and subtraction to square of numbers and getting results up to five digits.

Vedic Maths focuses on short procedures of calculation.

You can refer to my another blog here: Abacus vs Vedic Maths: Are They Same or Different? Complete Guide

And watch the Vedic Maths demo video:
https://youtu.be/Sd4F4NjuQTg

Both are used for brain development and faster calculation.

How Many Levels in Abacus Classes?

There are many different institutes that provide abacus education.

The real course curriculum consists of:

• Addition
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division

Some institutes divide the full course into 8 levels and some into 10 levels.

Which Abacus Class is Best?

To decide which course is better, consider these factors:

• Full curriculum details
• Instructor feedback
• Individual attention to the child
• Limited students per batch
• Competitions among children

All these factors decide the quality of the best abacus class.

You can also check the best abacus classes by Wisdom Abacus, which works in both online and offline modes.

Conclusion

Abacus works by learning techniques and methods. It works wonders on the human brain in development and makes the best version of your child. It sharpens the mind.

By sliding beads, your child learns addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Finally, they perform mentally and give better results in academics as well as in real life.

The qualities developed by learning abacus reflect clearly in a child’s performance.

Click for full details and curriculum on our website.
Visit our YouTube channel to see the performance of abacus students.

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