Visit the brain gym
RANA SIDDIQUI
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Here's a programme that helps children develop concentration, memory and confidence.
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MATHEMATICAL MAGICIANS: The winners
You might think of the abacus as an ancient calculating tool, perhaps only a little more advanced than the method of scratching lines on a cave wall and counting the `bundles'. That's what today's super computers make you feel like.
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But in an age when computers are becoming a necessity in school studies and calculators have replaced mental mathematics even for minor calculations among children, the abacus is gaining popularity.
This was evident the other day when 1600 children from across North India took part in a competition testing their skills using the abacus.
Wearing green and blue, full of hope and a little nervous tension, they all enrolled in 80 Brainobrain centres of the region. Brainobrain is an institute considered one of the leaders in the brain gym industry.
The institute incorporates Neuro Linguistics Programming (NLP) in its syllabus. Its aim is to help children develop concentration, memory and confidence. Which in turn builds up human excellence. The winners showcased extraordinary skills in calculation. Problems more associated with modern-day maths were solved by the children using the fastest addition and subtraction on the abacus. They solved 30 to 50 sums of five or seven rows in single and double digits, within three minutes.
Nineteen students of Brainobrain Centre, Rohini, in New Delhi bagged gold medals in different categories at the event, called Brainobrain Junior Fest, 2007. Winners belonged to the age group of six to 13.
These 19 young achievers also gave a live demonstration showcasing their numerical abilities and the mathematical processes involved with an abacus. At the end, they flashed V-signs and off they went back to school, now empowered to solve more problems than before.
So, now we know how important traditional methods are?
The popularity of animation films on Hanuman and Krishna that tell us their inspirational story in a play way method, is one such proof.
Is that why famous author Thomas Carlyle said, "What an enormous magnifier the tradition is?"
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