Mental arithmetic gains popularity in Ashgabat
November 06, 2017 | 15:11 |1351
Since early 2017, the Ashgabat School of Business and Law has introduced courses of mental arithmetic that are aimed at developing mental abilities and creativity with the help of arithmetic computations on special Japanese counts - Soroban (also called abacus).Muhammet Kadyrov
After 3 months of training on this unusual instrument, students begin solving arithmetic problems without this tool, imagining the mechanism of counting in their mind (hence the name "mental" arithmetic). This helps them to solve fantastically difficult tasks, strengthening the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain.
For example, one of the students of the courses, a 12-year-old boy solved in his mind such an equation 735 + 878-99 + 28 = ?. Moreover, he solved it faster than it was possible for an adult using a calculator!
The courses consist of two levels. The first studies addition and subtraction, the second - multiplication and division. Each level consists of three stages of three months: basic, elementary and in-depth.
In addition to learning the skills of mental arithmetic, students also develop memory and logical thinking, which in turn helps to improve school performance, quickly learn foreign languages and develop photographic memory. The technique is mainly suitable for pupils from 4 to 16 years old, but adults can also enroll for courses. Listeners are divided into groups according to age.
Despite the fact that the courses opened recently, the center has already started receiving numerous positive reviews. In the course of our conversation, the students noted that after the classes it is much easier for them to solve mathematical and logical tasks, and their school results have noticeably improved.
The teacher of mental arithmetic Zhanna Mashtakova shares with Orient:
- I have been teaching this course since March this year. And I was convinced in practice how much such exercises are useful for children, as they develop their concentration, speed of solving problems, logic, imagination and imaginative thinking. When they finish the first level, then the second and third, the results are just amazing! All the parents are happy and grateful for the progress of their children in school.
Mental arithmetic appeared about two thousand years ago in Ancient Japan, and already at that time its fundamental principles were laid, which are applied to this day: the use of abacus counts and the strengthening of communication between both hemispheres of the brain.
