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11/14/2014

What is the correct age to start abacus training?

Early Experience and interactions with the environment are most critical in a child's brain development. It is better to provide children with the best opportunity for learning and growth during the periods when their minds are most ready to absorb new information. It is ideal to start the program between 4 and 10 years.

11/13/2014

why Should I put My Child in Abacus Program?

Children of today are facing a greater competitive environment and they have to be slightly ahead of their peers. Hence, give them the abacus advantage.

11/13/2014

The abacus is a mathematical tool that stimulates visual-spatial learning.

11/07/2014

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02/03/2014

EXPERT ADVICE FOR PARENTS

Follow these tips from the experts to get a handle on your child's education. Learn what's going on at school and monitor your kids' activities to insure they get the best education possible.

01/01/2014

4. Complete the "4/5 exchange

Since there are only four beads on the bottom row, to go from "four" to "five," you push the bead on the top row to the "up" position and push all four beads from the bottom row down. The abacus at this position is correctly read "five." To count "six," push one bead up from the bottom row up, so the bead in the top row is up and one bead from the bottom row is up.

The process is essentially the same across the abacus. Go from "nine," in which all the beads in the ones place are pushed up, to "ten," in which a single bead from the bottom row of the tens place is pushed up.

So, to illustrate: 12345 would be represented with the top bead up in the ones place, four beads up from the bottom row of the tens place, three beads up in the bottom row of the hundreds place, two beads up in the bottom row of the thousands, and a single bead from the bottom row of the ten-thousand place.
It's easy to forget to push the beads in the bottom row down when exchanging a place, making the board will show the wrong value. It's easy enough to keep track of when you're counting, but when you get into complicated arithmetic it becomes more difficult.

12/31/2013

3. Start counting.

To count a digit, push the bead to the "up" position. "One" would be represented by pushing a single bead from the bottom row in the farthest column on the right to the "up" position, "two" by pushing two, etc.

12/30/2013

2. Assign each column a place value.

As on a modern calculator, each column of beads represents a "place" value from which you build a numeral. So, the farthest column on the right would be the "ones" place (1-9), the second farthest the "tens" place (10-99), the third farthest the hundreds (100-999), and so on.

Depending on your calculation, you can also assign a decimal place that you'll need to keep track of. If you want to enter the number 12,345.67, the 7 would be in the first column, the 6 in the second, the 5 in the third, and so on. When doing those calculations, you just have to remember where the decimal place is, mark it on the abacus with a pencil, or you can skip a row and leave it "blank" if that helps you remember.

12/29/2013

Four ways to use Abacus

1. Once you become more familiar with the function of the abacus, you can assign different values to the beads in the bottom row to perform more complex operations. The beads in the top row, however, need to be 5 times the value of each bead in the bottom row for the abacus method to work.