- What is Abacus ?
Abacus is an instrument that was invented some 2500 years ago primarily in China, which later on spread through countries like Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia etc. It was used in the ancient times for calculating numbers through basic arithmetic system. It has now been proven as a complete brain development tool over last two decades.
Abacus became popular over the world after being transformed from a calculating instrument into a system having immense power to benefit children of small ages by expanding the brain usage, in addition to making maths learning easy and effective.
- Getting Friendly with Abacus:
The image displayed is that of a structure of an abacus.
- Function of Abacus
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.
- Advantages of Abacus
This facilitates the functioning of “The whole brain” and helps in added intellect, thereby creating ‘child maths prodigy’.
- Photographic memory
- Concentration
- Visualization
- Logical reasoning
- Recall