Is learning abacus good for children?

During the period of growth and development, children need to cultivate many specialties and interests in learning in addition to healthy living. Abacus is a relatively common learning specialty. Learning abacus can greatly benefit children, but it can also cause great harm. The choice depends on the child's personality. Generally speaking, learning abacus can increase children's attention and develop intelligence.

Is learning abacus good for children?

Advantages: "Abacus" can change learning attitude and increase children's concentration.

The main purpose of learning abacus mental arithmetic is to let young children use the movement of beads to calculate, which builds a bridge between the image and the abstract, and has a good promoting effect on the establishment of children's preliminary spatial concepts and the development of image thinking. When children learn abacus, they often need to think independently and attentively, which invisibly cultivates their attention and memory.

Disadvantages: "Mental abacus" conflicts with elementary school mathematics, and it is easy to get confused if not practiced

"The mathematics learned in elementary school is to calculate from low to high digits, but mental arithmetic is exactly the opposite of what is taught in elementary school. The high digits are calculated first, and then the low digits. Will this contradictory calculation method affect children's learning?" Some parents are worried that after their children have learned mental arithmetic, they will only use visual thinking to calculate mechanically, and develop a relatively simple and passive learning method.

Whether learning abacus does more harm than good or more good than harm, the author believes that the key lies in the parents' own mentality. If parents regard the subject too mysteriously, have too high expectations, and do not cooperate with their children's learning, then the effect will inevitably not be achieved.

How to develop children's intelligence

1. The development of intelligence should start from prenatal education, and early education determines a child's life.

The earlier a child's family education begins, the better the child's physical and mental development will be. Every healthy child has the potential to become an outstanding person if given the right education. On the contrary, the later education begins, the less children's abilities are realized. This is the law of development and decrease of children's potential abilities.

2. Develop children's intelligence by learning foreign languages.

The most important method is repetition. You have to listen to it repeatedly until you have a sense of the language. It turns out that he just can't say it, but he already has it in his mind.

3. Develop children's intelligence through observing nature.

The most important method is to take children into nature from an early age.

4. Develop children's intelligence through physical exercise.

It is very important to cultivate children's interest in sports from an early age. Through sports, children will feel the unity of body and mind.

5. Open children’s minds through music.

Music can greatly develop children's imagination. All creativity and dreams in life come from imagination! Listening to music often is the best way to create imagination.