Preamble - Conceptual
facts:
The newly
invented Indian Abacus device is a
highly advanced version tool and of the state-of-the-art in design. The
invented product versions take the Abacus device to a level unseen
·
Visualization
is the key to better understanding.
·
Visualization
is the key to better anchoring on to the object visualised.
·
Visualization
enables more reasons to be with the object of experience mentally.
·
That
Visualization as the right brain routine is the key factor for Abacus to change
the Abstract numbers into objective experience, through image capture by the
brain.
Indian
Abacus makes
Visualization process involving faster & stronger image-capture due to the
distinct colour based images possible.
They are not only distinct by the inherent colour of the images but also
through the enhanced possibility of capture of coloured images in a contrast
& uniform colour background, which makes the visualisation
more pronounced.
INDIAN ABACUS- Colour images
Indian
Abacus Program is structured with a special focus to facilitate the children to
learn numbers and identify them as colour images, to add, subtract, multiply
and divide them in doing the calculations. The importance of identifying the
numbers as colour images is a predominantly strong factor that Indian Abacus
program could establish with the strength of the Indian Abacus tool. This is a conspicuously lacking feature in
the conventional / old abacus in use now due to the inherent inadequacy in the
Abacus tool which has beads – which when manipulated to move towards a value
position retain their original image and do not emerge as a disclosed colour
image as an output of the systematic manipulation.
Whereas
in Indian Abacus, when the child moves a specific slider to a value position
with the finger, the kinesthetic activity (touching and moving) is one which
gets completed. Simultaneously, the
slider which is moved towards the bar results in a colour image emerging, which
is a visual. So there are two strong
features of ‘information and & related memory registry’ that become
available for the child – one to feel the touch and the other to see
visually. Visual, the input for the
sight has a greater impact on the brain for it to receive and store the
information as memory.
In
the Abacus – the conventional one - the bead when moved towards the bar, no
doubt the kinesthetic activity gets completed but with regard to the image
registry the bead before and after moving retains its unchanged image, so it is
received as a comparatively weaker image (due to the crowded matrix of beads
and lacking distinction) hence the initial learning becomes difficult, a little
stressful and the memory registry is also that much fragile. The children
especially the very young ones – of the age group 5 – 7 years find the visual
learning difficult and less effective with the conventional abacus. The drop outs in the initial levels and
errors in calculation experienced could be related to the difficulty in visual
learning and the shortcomings thereof.
The Indian Abacus for students
The Indian Abacus products developed offer greater ease and
comfort in registering in memory of the images representing the values. When
the child manipulates the slider/s to do calculations, the slider/s pushed
towards the bar project open the hidden colour (Red and Green) images, which
otherwise hide the images in the no value position in sync with the body of the
Indian Abacus.
Child is at ease and comfort to differentiate the values /
numbers easily due to colour projections of the value position of the sliders.
The upper sliders project Red colour portion of the sliders as images which
represent value and similarly the lower sliders project Green colour portion of
the sliders as images which again represent value, Apart from the comfort of
easy and faster earning, the newly designed tool enables enhanced visio-spatial
memory. The sliders of abacus in the value positions – projecting colour images
– stay put even when the abacus is held upright. The sliders do not fall from
their worked position.
Indian Abacus has a greater advantage on account of better
memory registry and visualisation later that the student experiences in
comparison to the conventional or the generic abacus which has been in
use. The student while operating Indian
Abacus moves the Lower and the upper sliders to unhide and hide the colour
images which represent values. The lower
sliders when moved towards the bar unhide and display Green colour images and
similarly the upper sliders when moved towards the bar unhide and display Red
colour images. Thus with the display of colour images the memory registry &
later visualisation in Indian Abacus is many times better – stronger and faster
– when compared to the generic Abacus. Since Visualization is the key factor
for better visual memory, Indian Abacus is much superior to its predecessor.
These uniquely designed Abacus tools offer ease and comfort
to the children in learning Abacus Mental Arithmetic calculations and in
enhancing their brain skills.
Indian Abacus is used for coaching the young students in
imparting the Abacus Mental arithmetic skills by image of abacus, thereby
helping the children do fast and accurate mental arithmetic, apart from
enhancing their brain skills such as Concentration, Visualization (Photographic
Memory). The advanced features such as projection of colour images enable
largely better image memory and therefore result in much faster and accurate
calculations, which are the reflection of brain skills.
