2025 is a digital age where everything is driven by technology with focus on innovation. With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, even the day to day life is getting transformed in unprecedented ways. The pressing question is whether technology-fueled innovation alters every aspect of our daily lives? Or for some specific fields like Maths education do we continue to rely on proven age old techniques like Abacus classes.
In the last few years, alternate forms of learning Maths like Abacus online classes and Vedic Maths classes have shot up in popularity across the whole world. In many countries, both the private and public schools have started to adopt these courses, some as mandatory while some as optional.
To give an example, we at Mathcruise have also partnered with many schools so far. One of the schools with which we partnered in the past is ‘Budh singh memorial public school’ in Alipur (Tigdi) district of Delhi. Our model there was to provide classes for both Abacus courses and Vedic Maths to the children, and it was offered at a nominal fee structure to encourage most students to opt for it and get to know what these courses are.
In this partnership Mathcruise team and the school administration had the same goal as follows:
This is an interesting question. If you do a survey, then most Abacus training schools would give you the answer that the most key advantage of Abacus training is fast and accurate arithmetic calculations.
However at Mathcruise we have a different perspective. Our chief trainer has a passion for spreading love of Maths and she understands the child psychology that most kids end up developing some kind of fear of Maths for one reason or the other. Sometimes a child is shy or afraid to ask questions in class, sometimes he misses a few classes (due to travel or sickness) and is not able to cover up the backlog, or at times simply he is slow in calculations. Whatever may be the reason, the end result is that the teacher moves on to next and advanced topics, while the earlier concept is not clear to the child. This develops fear of Maths.
Now let us understand the real benefit of online Abacus classes (or even offline for that matter). You know by now that Abacus helps the kids to solve even the most complex arithmetic questions mentally with ease, and at great speed. Have you wondered how this happens behind the scenes? There is no black magic here. As the student learns and practices Abacus methodology, his ability to focus gets a tremendous boost as a result of which he is able to create an imaginary picture of a physical Abacus tool in his mind. And furthermore he does the imaginary movement of beads on that tool, and keeps replacing that imaginary picture in his mind with a new one. This process is called Visualization, and as kids practice this more and more they become so proficient in this art that anyone who sees them thinks they are Human calculators.
Visit our video gallery page to see these young kids beating the calculator, with so much ease and self-confidence. So at Mathcruise we firmly believe that the biggest advantage of Abacus Math classes is that it removes fear of Maths from children and generates self-confidence, which is the best lifetime gift we can give to kids.
While the above discussion should give you good insight into why Abacus Math classes are still relevant in today’s digital age, we are presenting below the simple and top 3 reasons that should help you understand why Abacus classes are still selling like hot cakes.
Abacus classes perfectly fit this great saying. Abacus teaching methodology follows the oldest and traditional way of learning numbers which makes use of beads on a physical tool. Even modern science acknowledges that beads are the best way to intuitively teach concepts of numbers and addition/subtraction to toddlers, and hence you will find Abacus based toys like below in almost every house across the world, irrespective of region, religion and culture.
Professional Abacus courses offered by Abacus schools today simply builds on this concept and take the children on the path of focused learning and trains them in doing all types of arithmetic calculations in a fraction of second.
Let us admit that most students today are dependent on digital calculators even for simple questions like 45 + 79. They do not even try to solve these questions on their own, and choose an easy path. On the other hand, Abacus enables the kids to do calculations as complex as 4352 + 5467 – 459 – 3487 just mentally using the Visualization tool, where there is no need to use paper or a pen.
This sounds unbelievable, isn’t it? There is more to it. Not only addition or subtraction, Abacus trained kids can easily solve complex multiplication and division questions on their fingertips mentally, see the few examples below. Which parent would not want his child to have this skill?
We have mentioned this earlier already in this article but this benefit is worthy of a double mention. At the end of the day what matters most is the self confidence which enables the kids to find their way through any challenge, not only in academics but in life. Abacus trained kids have the highest retention power, tremendous ability to focus and these factors automatically lead to higher confidence.
So while we all adapt ourselves to digital technology, some exceptions will always remain where it is in the best interest of mankind to stay connected to their roots—and Abacus classes in Delhi clearly stand at the top of this list!
Tanmay Gupta, a specialist in mathematics, possesses a deep passion for the subject. He has been involved with Mathcruise since its inception and takes pride in being a part of the growing Mathcruise family. Tanmay excels in both Abacus and Vedic Mathematics and is particularly interested in developing innovative methods to effectively engage with children, aiming to eliminate their fear of mathematics.
We aim to remove fear and phobia of Maths from the minds of children in the 5 – 15 yrs age group, by using fun-filled learning techniques such as Abacus, Vedic Maths, School Maths.
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