How can you nurture your child's mind and help succeed in math?

Learn how you can teach your child to do mathematical calculations using a remarkable educational tool - the abacus. An abacus is an ancient Asian calculating tool that helps modern students as young as age 4 or 5 master essential math skills they will retain and use all their lives.

Math proficiency gives students a competitive edge and prepares them for tomorrow’s highly selective job marketplace. Most new jobs require good math and science skills, and our Learning Mathematics with the Abacus instruction program is an excellent way to prepare your child for future career success.

With abacus instruction, you can help your child achieve more than just math skills. You can boost your child's confidence, provide a sense of achievement, promote intuitive thinking, enhance problem-solving capability, enhance creativity, and improve concentration and mental endurance.

When children use both hands to move the beads in small and large arithmetic calculations, there is quick communication between the hands and the brain that stimulates both the right and left hemispheres of the brain. This promotes rapid, balanced whole brain development.

In Japan, educators maintain that the abacus helps children develop powers of mental calculation. It enables children to:

• understand the base-ten number system and place values,
• understand concepts of carrying and borrowing in arithmetic, and
• visualize close relations between numbers and numerals.

The abacus is an excellent substitute for rote memorization of multiplication tables. Abacus calculation relies on the manipulation of beads rather than use of traditional arithmetic. It teaches children to visualize numbers and their relationships and placement values.

Many schools in Asia, where abacus instruction is widely popular for teaching mental math/arithmetic, introduce the abacus between kindergarten and 4th grade. If a child starts learning the abacus before being taught traditional arithmetic, there is minimal conflict and the child will easily work within both systems. If a child starts the program later, having already received traditional foundations, there may be a slightly extended learning period for the child to accept and integrate the abacus method.

Educators in Asia say abacus skills are a key reason children in these countries consistently win top rankings in international math comparisons.

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