What is mental arithmetic?

Mental arithmetic (jap. Anzan) derived from the traditional Eastern discipline, nowadays a popular and modern educational program is increasingly present in the western part of the world. It was created as a result of many years of work by psychologists, pedagogues and other experts in the field of education, and it is based on the use of the ancient calculating device abacus (jap. Soroban), whose visualization achieves extraordinary fast calculations. Scientific studies have proven that mental calculation represents the best training for the brain.

How mental arithmetic develops your child’s intellectual abilities?

In addition to providing the ability to improve the child’s mathematical skills, the mental arithmetic program has a positive impact on the development of thinking and encourages a number of skills and abilities that a child needs in life. It improves the way the child listens, processes and understands information, conceives and creates certain ideas, recognizes details, performs certain actions, and solves problems.

Students of Kid Genius school are especially developing the following skills and abilities:

  • fast calculation

  • exceptional concentration and attention

  • excellent memory and developed reflexes

  • photographic memory

  • analytical and logical thinking

  • developed mental abilities

  • increase of intelligence

  • creativity, imagination and visualization capability

  • developed senses of vision, hearing and contact

To whom the mental arithmetic program is intended?

The program is intended for children aged 5 to 12, because it is the lifetime in which the human brain develops most dynamically and during which the largest number of neuronal connections will occur (synapses). After this period, the opportunities for development are significantly less, and it is extremely important not to let this unique opportunity in the life of the child go away. Enable your child to maximize its intellectual potential and become its better version.