How Online Abacus Classes Build Confidence in Kids

Abacus classes are the buzzword today in the field of education, but most parents think that Abacus benefit is limited to making arithmetic calculations superfast and accurate, and thus strengthen Maths. An interesting secret is that online Abacus classes are useful in many more ways. Most importantly they boost the confidence in your child at an early age, which further helps him in every sphere of life be it sports, academics, or day to day life problems. Let us understand this a little better and for this, we will first look into how Abacus works.

How does Abacus work?

Abacus is based on the principle of hand-eye-ear coordination which means that all these senses are actively used when the child goes through the journey of  Abacus training. When the trainer speaks the question, the child uses his hands to do the finger movement to move beads on the Abacus tool, as well as listen to the question with a lot of focus. Regular Abacus practice leads to these 3 senses getting super strengthened which further leads to a much higher ability to focus and concentrate

The Secret behind Abacus Success – Visualization

Visualization technique is at the core of Abacus and immensely helps to build confidence in kids. Let’s understand how.

• In Visualization, a child is taught to virtually use the Abacus tool.
• An Abacus physical tool looks like below where the child moves the beads to represent numbers based on formulas.

• First step of visualization needs the child to imagine the picture of tool in his mind
• As the trainer speaks the first number, the child does the finger movement and creates a fresh picture of Abacus tool in his mind, and erases the old picture
• For every subsequent number, or the calculation step (like addition or subtraction), the child repeats the above step
• With more and more practice, the imagination power becomes so strong that the child is able to visualize very very fast, which sounds unbelievable to the naked eye.
• As soon as the trainer speaks the last number, the child speaks the answer immediately. This is an amazing phenomenon which needs a lot of hard work and patience.

Examples of questions that Abacus students can mentally solve using Visualization

Below are some of the example questions that Abacus trained students can solve with a fraction of a second. Can you believe this?

Double digit multiplication

Complex division, with answer in Remainder

How Online Abacus Classes Build Confidence in Kids

• When the child is able to do all the arithmetic calculations mentally and that too with 4x speed higher than conventional Maths (ranging from basic addition, subtraction to complex multiply and divide questions as mentioned above), his confidence level gets a tremendous boost since most other kids in his peer group struggle to give accurate results even by using paper and pen
• Regular Abacus practice stimulates both the right and left brain since the child is strongly encouraged to use both hands for doing finger movement in advanced Abacus stages. You must be aware that in most kids or rather most humans, only the left brain is active which does all the logical thinking and decision making. Abacus courses additionally develops the right brain and we are sure you can imagine the superpowers that your child will get as a result of both his brains functioning at the same time. His ability to grasp, or process any information simply gets doubled since his mind is running with a double engine now. It’s a fact.
• Online Abacus classes also help in better logical thinking and problem solving since a higher confidence level motivates the child to go deep into problem solving instead of being afraid of them.

What is the best age to learn Abacus and where to enroll?

• 5-15 yrs is the best age to learn Abacus. After the age of 15 years, the human mind goes into a dormant state and its very difficult to stimulate the right brain which is the key to Abacus success since the right brain is responsible for the visualization or imagination effectiveness.
• You can enroll into online Abacus classes at a training school of your choice. However my advice is that you must prefer a good Abacus trainer over the brand name of the Abacus school. A good Abacus trainer will effectively engage your child into positive learning and coach him with great patience, which is the key. A child will frequently go through ups and downs in his Abacus journey and will tend to drop out of the course out of frustration or boredom, if the trainer is not able to bind him using the creative ways of teaching.
• I enrolled my son 2 years back with Mathcruise, who provide online classes for Abacus  as well as online Vedic Maths classes. Their chief trainer has a passion for Maths and she personally gives commitment for successful results (given that the child attends the online Abacus classes regularly), else they do 100% refund. This shows their confidence level and I have seen my son become proficient in Maths under their guidance. Go with Mathcruise if you are still researching to find best online Abacus classes, you will love it for sure.