subject: How Children learn numbers [print this page] How Children learn numbers
Children initially would not know the meaning of the numbers as they cannot relate them to anything that they understand. Learning of numbers would however be possible by calling them out in an order and for each number objectively touching and feeling a concretized object which they can see, touch or feel. In the process the child would relate the number to the object that it is made to see & touch or feel. But by using many similar objects, it would relate only the counting but not the object to the number. It is easier for the child to learn numbers this way as learning best happens through an activity. Activity becomes a highlight in the process of learning numbers through looking and touching of the objects rather than the relativity of the number to the object, as the objects are many in number and similar making relativity of a number to a specific object cannot be established.
By repetitive calling out of the numbers and touching and pushing the objects children get the sequential learning of numbers. This has been the reason why Abacus has the great advantage for children to learn the numbers. Children get interested in Abacus based computation since the same is a Number-game. Pushing the beads is fun on one side and since it also means numbers, learning also happens. Abacus based arithmetic computation helps through learning of numbers with the support of concretized objects and their images in the mind. The child is thus introduced to numbers without any difficulty as it will start loving the tool as soon as it sees it. Abacus enables the children do abstract arithmetic physically by feeling them, i.e. through objective experience.
Abacus helps children not only to learn the numbers by identifying them understanding the positions Units, Tens, Hundreds. While computing the child uses the formulae, which expose the child add and subtract easily by borrowing the values from the higher positions wherever necessary, which is done in fraction of a second. Computing without objective experience is possible and some could be adepts in it. But the computation process using concretized objects such as the Abacus gives it an additional sensing advantage as the objects could be seen visualized. Visualization actually completes the memory process. Visualization which is "seeing with clarity" actually creates memory, Image becomes the input for the brain to capture and fix it as a memory. Repeated imaging of numbers form an objective experience rather than an abstract input. Objective experience is the root cause for memory and abstract input is one down in the order as it needs a related image to substantiate it so that it becomes a memory file in the brain.
Visualization which is a function of the Right brain therefore enables a stronger and more comprehensive input for the brain to use effectively in the memory process. It is this function which makes the Right brain a stronger player in the memory process.Abacus thus is a Wonder tool, which helps the child in so many ways helps them learn numbers, enable calculation of complicated sums possible easily and speedily. Other benefits are enhancement of Brain capabilities Concentration, Listening, Visualization. Easy computing possibility makes possible Speedy calculations and accurate to the core. Abacus the physical one used initially becomes the mental tool which supports the child to perform Mental Arithmetic at amazing speed, exhibiting the acquired Concentration, Listening and imaging skills.///avs///
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