The main reason to learn how to use an abacus, is because it will teach you how to manipulate numbers - how each digit relates to the others, and how to use that knowledge to get very good at understanding how to do all the major operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Little Masters trains the children to use their Right Brain for calculations. After a few months of training a student can start solving equations like 542 X 56 =? 7553 /452 =? Students do not need any pen, paper or a calculator to solve this! With our Mind Training program these sums, that have baffled you, can be solved by a Eight year old child in just 10 seconds and without using any of the external aids. Hard to believe, but true. This is what we are into. Whole Brain Development using Mental Arithmetic as a medium and an ABACUS as a tool.