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[SIZE="5"]I discovered the power of the Abacus when my youngest daughter was four years old, on the sixth of the sixth she will be 21 years of age this year. First of all I spent a few months looking at the history of the Abacus and thinking about how it became distributed around the world, was there a connection between the Chinese Abacus, and the Roman Abacus Roman soldiers carried around, the Romans sailed regularly from the red Sea to India, shipping obviously took place between China and India, the Indians were the first people to utilise numbers, the Arabic world in the Middle East perfected those numbers and scholars in both India and the Middle East did not need to use the Abacus.
But the simplicity of the Abacus for the Chinese with their complicated language was always of benefit to them, every Chinese family has been brought up with an Abacus in there own home, just as every Japanese family has been brought up with the Sorbonne in their homes. So it is that we have the two most ancient Asian civilisations still utilising the Abacus to make their children aware of arithmetic preparing the whole mentality of the child to understand numbers,
Russia's history of the Abacus was such a strong teaching influence from it, that it has persisted in Russian and Slavic families since its inception,
French officers brought Russian Abacus back to Western Europe as a novelty,
but Western Europe was so much based on Arabic numerals, were mathematics Scholars obviously did not need to utilise the Abacus to be perfect in mathematics, so it was that the general use in Western Europe following the withdrawal of the Roman Empire managed its mathematics without the use of the Abacus.
What we did not consider was the usefulness of the Abacus, as a teaching tool, the Japanese Sorbonne is probably more widely used in non-Japanese countries then the Chinese Abacus. In reality for a small child the Chinese Abacus sau pan is more useful as in every column you can utilise representation of number up to fifteen and then reform it into tens to read the final quantity,
you will find Chinese Abacus being made simply from wood or metal, they can be copied easily to them minimum of imagination by anyone wishing to copy them,
the Japanese Abacus Sorbonne is made by the Japanese company of the same name, made in plastic, totally unsuitable for a small child to use, one simple knock and the number representation is lost,
this situation is no trouble at all in Japan, where every Japanese person has been brought up with the Sorbonne children are continually being taught by their own parents in the home, and it is continually being utilised in Japanese school rooms.
Nothing is ever likely to persuade the Japanese people, to teach their children arithmetic in any other way whatsoever, Japanese scholars Excel in utilising the National Abacus mentally to perform the most excruciatingly difficult calculations mentally, to do this they need to devote themselves to practice continually between their fifth and 12th birthday.
There is no doubt that this extended education builds mental capability, beyond anything we have seen in any other country, this mental capability is interesting especially when we consider younger children, to acquire the massive Japanese facility in calculation, they are using their brains in exactly the same manner they have learnt to use the Abacus physically. They remember these complicated procedures required to multiply and divide large numbers, they can visualise these procedures from memory.
Only the strict discipline by which the Japanese have created their modern economy, prepares their children to be told in such a manner, nowadays in Japan this extended teaching of mental arithmetic is being slowly ignored.
Explaining a little bit more my history as too why after creating such a tool as Abacus one I ignored trying to sell it, after trying a few schools with the Abacus, and seeing that the schoolteachers were unable to comprehend what I was talking about, I knew when they were asked if it had been helpful to them , they made this simple reply "no we have tried it and it is of no use".
Of course I knew far different to that, my own child was consistently developing arithmetic understanding simply by interaction between us, her continually asking me to set a problem, whatever the parent is doing, can be done to the same extent, whilst your child is asking you, set me a problem. Once our young mothers realise that they can use the Abacus simply themselves, and that this visualisation of the Abacus assists the mental thinking that has to be done, when we can teach our young children,
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Of course we think at the speed of light, and if we can visualise arithmetic procedure at the speed of light, we can calculate almost instantaneously.[/COLOR]
From the moment a child picks up the Abacus, it is building its arithmetic awareness, perfect arithmetic is the basis of all mathematics, the basis of all science, our children can have perfect mathematics just as quickly as we can manage to give them that gift. I have understood this ability regarding the Abacus any Abacus can teach perfect arithmetic, but no Abacus in the world can teach it as well as my Abacus, "Abacus one."
Regarding any number there are four aspects to every number, the meaning of the number either one, or one million, our decimal system allows us to express the meaning of any number very simply,
[COLOR="DarkRed"][COLOR="Red"] Our column system representing multiplication by 10, allows us to write large numbers simply,
of course very few of us can visualise what 1 million of anything looks like physically,
but we can visualise one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten, we can clearly understand 10x10 even easier we can understand 10x1 and then 10 times two,
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if a child can speak clearly it will be able to understand everything you need to understand within our decimal system so enabling it to count efficiently utilising notation,
the Indian Arabic numeral system is perfection, so perfect that it represents the language of mathematics in every country on earth.
Abacus one uses our natural language, obviously it can be created in any language, obviously we can make stickers to convert it to French over English of vice versa, as far as English primary schools go, we could introduce it as a perfect method of introduction to the French language early,
we could teach children that have not grasped arithmetic properly to speak with the French language as they learn perfect arithmetic for the first time in their lives,
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[SIZE="5"]I discovered the power of the Abacus when my youngest daughter was four years old, on the sixth of the sixth she will be 21 years of age this year. First of all I spent a few months looking at the history of the Abacus and thinking about how it became distributed around the world, was there a connection between the Chinese Abacus, and the Roman Abacus Roman soldiers carried around, the Romans sailed regularly from the red Sea to India, shipping obviously took place between China and India, the Indians were the first people to utilise numbers, the Arabic world in the Middle East perfected those numbers and scholars in both India and the Middle East did not need to use the Abacus.
But the simplicity of the Abacus for the Chinese with their complicated language was always of benefit to them, every Chinese family has been brought up with an Abacus in there own home, just as every Japanese family has been brought up with the Sorbonne in their homes. So it is that we have the two most ancient Asian civilisations still utilising the Abacus to make their children aware of arithmetic preparing the whole mentality of the child to understand numbers,
Russia's history of the Abacus was such a strong teaching influence from it, that it has persisted in Russian and Slavic families since its inception,
French officers brought Russian Abacus back to Western Europe as a novelty,
but Western Europe was so much based on Arabic numerals, were mathematics Scholars obviously did not need to utilise the Abacus to be perfect in mathematics, so it was that the general use in Western Europe following the withdrawal of the Roman Empire managed its mathematics without the use of the Abacus.
What we did not consider was the usefulness of the Abacus, as a teaching tool, the Japanese Sorbonne is probably more widely used in non-Japanese countries then the Chinese Abacus. In reality for a small child the Chinese Abacus sau pan is more useful as in every column you can utilise representation of number up to fifteen and then reform it into tens to read the final quantity,
you will find Chinese Abacus being made simply from wood or metal, they can be copied easily to them minimum of imagination by anyone wishing to copy them,
the Japanese Abacus Sorbonne is made by the Japanese company of the same name, made in plastic, totally unsuitable for a small child to use, one simple knock and the number representation is lost,
this situation is no trouble at all in Japan, where every Japanese person has been brought up with the Sorbonne children are continually being taught by their own parents in the home, and it is continually being utilised in Japanese school rooms.
Nothing is ever likely to persuade the Japanese people, to teach their children arithmetic in any other way whatsoever, Japanese scholars Excel in utilising the National Abacus mentally to perform the most excruciatingly difficult calculations mentally, to do this they need to devote themselves to practice continually between their fifth and 12th birthday.
There is no doubt that this extended education builds mental capability, beyond anything we have seen in any other country, this mental capability is interesting especially when we consider younger children, to acquire the massive Japanese facility in calculation, they are using their brains in exactly the same manner they have learnt to use the Abacus physically. They remember these complicated procedures required to multiply and divide large numbers, they can visualise these procedures from memory.
Only the strict discipline by which the Japanese have created their modern economy, prepares their children to be told in such a manner, nowadays in Japan this extended teaching of mental arithmetic is being slowly ignored.
Explaining a little bit more my history as too why after creating such a tool as Abacus one I ignored trying to sell it, after trying a few schools with the Abacus, and seeing that the schoolteachers were unable to comprehend what I was talking about, I knew when they were asked if it had been helpful to them , they made this simple reply "no we have tried it and it is of no use".
Of course I knew far different to that, my own child was consistently developing arithmetic understanding simply by interaction between us, her continually asking me to set a problem, whatever the parent is doing, can be done to the same extent, whilst your child is asking you, set me a problem. Once our young mothers realise that they can use the Abacus simply themselves, and that this visualisation of the Abacus assists the mental thinking that has to be done, when we can teach our young children,
[COLOR="DarkRed"]at the speed of light.
Of course we think at the speed of light, and if we can visualise arithmetic procedure at the speed of light, we can calculate almost instantaneously.[/COLOR]
From the moment a child picks up the Abacus, it is building its arithmetic awareness, perfect arithmetic is the basis of all mathematics, the basis of all science, our children can have perfect mathematics just as quickly as we can manage to give them that gift. I have understood this ability regarding the Abacus any Abacus can teach perfect arithmetic, but no Abacus in the world can teach it as well as my Abacus, "Abacus one."
Regarding any number there are four aspects to every number, the meaning of the number either one, or one million, our decimal system allows us to express the meaning of any number very simply,
[COLOR="DarkRed"][COLOR="Red"] Our column system representing multiplication by 10, allows us to write large numbers simply,
of course very few of us can visualise what 1 million of anything looks like physically,
but we can visualise one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten, we can clearly understand 10x10 even easier we can understand 10x1 and then 10 times two,
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if a child can speak clearly it will be able to understand everything you need to understand within our decimal system so enabling it to count efficiently utilising notation,
the Indian Arabic numeral system is perfection, so perfect that it represents the language of mathematics in every country on earth.
Abacus one uses our natural language, obviously it can be created in any language, obviously we can make stickers to convert it to French over English of vice versa, as far as English primary schools go, we could introduce it as a perfect method of introduction to the French language early,
we could teach children that have not grasped arithmetic properly to speak with the French language as they learn perfect arithmetic for the first time in their lives,
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