Indian Abacus at Anna Nagar

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.