Syllabus
- Addition and subtraction
- Abacus: 2 – Digit of 3 rows ;
- 3 – Digit of 3 rows
- Mental: 1 – Digit of 3 rows
Skills
- Speed gets increased.
- Using speed to win in time.
- Concentration develops further – The Abacus skills make the child focused.
- Observation of color images – Visualization of images is improved.
- Students relate images to numbers, and thus the skill strengthens.
Duration
3 months*
*The student should work at home for a minimum of 10 – 15 minutes to practice/learn the skills.
Level Completion Certificate
The certificate will be issued immediately from the date of successful completion of the level, after completing the work in the prescribed books. It will roughly take 3 months to complete.
Image Flash
Image Flash is the activity that is done to give larger scope to the students to read Abacus slider images representing values using which the students can have extended practice and also better assessment of their skills in reading the values of images at a greater speed. Flash Cards were used earlier, but with the advent of the GEM Abacus program now the students can view an uncountable number of images. With the usage skills to read the constantly changing image values, students experience better challenges, enhancing their Visio-spatial memory skills that are necessary to perform better while doing faster and more accurate mental arithmetic skills by Abacus images. Speed and accuracy in performing Mental Arithmetic by Abacus images indirectly reflect their Concentration & Memory skills.
The Abacus Tutor during the Image Flash session alerts the students to focus on the activity of reading the values of slider images. After saying this, the Abacus tutor starts manipulating the sliders of the tool – GEM Abacus – Tutors continuously to make the students read the images concurrently and write down the number-value of each of those images flashed on the Tutor’s Abacus. They should write the number values on their notebooks. The Abacus Tutor generally writes down a series of numbers – Single, double, triple, 4 digits, as the case may be, on a paper first and during the activity, she would manipulate the sliders by looking at the numbers she wrote down which the students read and write.