Children are trained to sit with the right body posture – discipline inculcated.
Palms on table, Holding of Abacus & Pencil – the prerequisites to skill-learning.
Introduced to Play way learning creating interest.
Children are trained to sit focused.
Addition and subtraction
Abacus: 1 – Digit ( 3 rows ); 1, 2 – Digit ( 3 / 4 / 5 rows )
The child would demonstrate interest in learning.
Manipulating the sliders/colour images representing the numbers initially a little slowly, the child gains speed encountering more and more sums, resulting in speedy calculation.
Concentration skills develop due to – developing of interest in learning abacus calculations, need to observe closely sitting for longer duration of time than the child is normally used to.
Relating images to numbers
*The student should work at home for a minimum of 10 – 15 minutes for practice / learn the skills
The Abacus Tutor during Image Flash session alerts the students to focus on the activity of reading the values of slider images. The Abacus tutor would after saying Start manipulates the sliders of the tool – Indian Abacus – Tutors continuously to make the students read the images one after the other and write down the number-value of each of such images flashed on the on the Tutor’s Abacus and they should write the number values on their note books. The Abacus Tutor actually writes down a series of numbers – Single, double, triple, 4 digits, as the case may be, on a paper first and during the activity, she would manipulate the sliders looking at the numbers she wrote down which the students read and write.
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