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UC MAS Abacus & Arithmetic Program

UC MAS Abacus & Arithmetic Program

UCMAS is a Full brain development program designed for children and young people to develop their latent mental power at an age when brain development is reaching its peak. At UCMAS Qatar , we are dedicated to enhancing children’s lives where we offer a unique opportunity for children aged 4 to 13 to participate in a program that contributed to the mental health, development and excellence of kids around the globe since 2004 . UCMAS Qatar utilizes the “Abacus Mental Arithmetic” skills as a training tool for the mental development of children. Mental Arithmetic is a form of calculation that is solely done by the human mind without the use of pencil and paper, calculator or any other gadget or electronic device. During the training process, children are transformed into professional users of the abacus, an ancient Chinese calculator, and then a different set of mental training allows the child to imagine or visualize a virtual or a “mental” abacus to solve mathematical problems. These mental arithmetic processes will act as an actual training for the child’s mental skills that are occupied during the arithmetic solving process and help improve them.

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Course Duration/Session :

Every child takes Three months to complete each level. The session is conducted once a week and 2 hours per session.

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Benefits

It is often assumed that learning mental arithmetic is merely a method to improve the speed and accuracy of calculations. For example, adding 10-digit numbers within a few seconds is an amazing accomplishment for most young children. However, it is much more than that. It is developing the mental skills and abilities of the mind such as powerful concentration, accurate observational and active listening skills, strong visualization, vast imagination and great photographic memory. Here are UCMAS Qatar main benefits and how we come to achieving them:

 
1Improving Concentration:
Keeping track of a long mental process is not easy at all, for example when we are counting money, any distraction to the counting process will result in losing track of the mental task. While visualizing a mental abacus in mind, UCMAS students do their best not to lose it by completely focusing on the task in hand and avoiding all types of distractions. With practice, they master staying focused during the progressively longer time spans that relate to more difficult mental problems.
2Developing Astonishing Mental Arithmetic Abilities:
This is a very natural end result at UCMAS. Students will be able to solve arithmetic problems mentally faster than a calculator! UCMAS is not a mathematical program though, it is carefully designed to enhance the minds of young learners by using the Abacus mental arithmetic techniques; pulling them toward success and great achievements, All the mental skills gained by the students at UCMAS will be theirs forever allowing them to thrive in the future.
3Improving Imagination & Visualization:
Students are challenged to start forming a Virtual Abacus early on and soon thereafter will begin to use their imagination to visualize the abacus and solve problems mentally on an increasingly bigger number of rods which keeps challenging the young learners’ abilities. This continuous challenge of imagination and visualization techniques significantly improves students’ skills in these two mental parameters.
4Strengthening Memory:
UCMAS students continuously memorize different images during solving problems; they tend to memorize momentarily each image constructed on the virtual abacus before giving the final answer. This training process significantly enhances their memory.
1Enhancing Accuracy and Speed:
These two traits are known to be inversely related. As one of UCMAS’s greatest challenges is time, students are trained to give extremely accurate results in shorter amounts of time. This challenge teaches them how to optimize the use of time while remaining focused and accurate.
2Promoting Creativity:
Having developed imagination and visualization as well as memory, concentration and the other mental parameters, the right brain is activated and students will find it easier to be creative and inspired.
3Boosting Self-Confidence:
As a result of the continuous encouragement and appreciation the students receive from their parents, relatives and teachers students will be given a powerful boost to their self confidence that will further help them in future challenges. Peers and the community will also admire and encourage the students when they attend the different demonstrations, national and international competitions and witness the impressive mental abilities the students own. These challenges eliminate the fear of competition that most young students struggle with at this age, and instead they will strive to prove their abilities in every challenge they face in life.
4Improving Observational and Listening Skills:
With the help of the flash cards, UCMAS students train their observation skills by taking millisecond glimpses at the image the flash cards holds contributing to the visual and incredibly fast interpretation of its content. The same happens with listening skills, where students have a single chance of understanding a long string of dictated numbers, while doing the arithmetic and giving the answer. This will help students improve their active listening abilities and/or they learn how to temporarily remember these numbers in their short-term memory until they manage to process them.
5Laying Down a Strong Foundation for Academic Achievement:
Having developed all of the above, it is expected for students at UCMAS to have a better foundation for academic achievement and excellence.
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UC MAS Abacus & Arithmetic Program

    Students will be taught:

  • 1. Fundamental work
  • 2. Listening calculation
  • 3. Visual calculation
  • 4. Formula conceptualization
  • 5. Bead imagination
  • 6. Multiplication memorization
  • 7. Bead manipulation
  • 8. Mental calculation
  • 9. Combination of subtraction from a lower order & addition to higher order rods
  • 10. Addition upper & subtraction of lower beads simultaneously
  • 11. Abacus calculation
  • 12. Multiplication
  • 13. Multiplication with decimal points
  • 14. Division
  • 15. Division with decimal points
  • 16. Multiplication of percentage
  • 17. Square root operations
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UCMAS Qatar Program Structured Overview

Pre Junior Levels

UCMAS Qatar offer pre-Junior program for kids age 4 to 6 years old , we have two Foundation Modules in this stage.

Foundation level for 4 -5 years old students, we teach the students how to hold the pencil and how to write numbers from 0 to 20 , and we introduce the concept of addition and subtractions with little knowledge of using the Abacus , the training is the fundamental training to enhance the students to write and read with full confidence , students learn in 3 month how to write and read numbers and starting playing with abacus and train them how to use the abacus by introducing the beads and abacus parts and how to manipulate the beads , by the end of this level student will be able to read and write numbers till 20 and use the abacus and start counting by adding and subtracting small number by using traditional way and with help of abacus.

KG Levelfor 5 to 6 years old students , here student most have knowledge of reading and writing number from 0 to 20 we teach the students, student start learning the abacus parts and start manipulating the beads to perform the arithmetic’s operation addition and subtractions , we start with direct operations using abacus with both hands ( four and six fingers techniques are applied)

We start introducing the abacus and parts ( Abacus Frame , Beam, Rod, and Beads) We start Representing of numbers from 0 to 9 with the beads on the abacus, and explains the proper sitting posture and the correct positioning of the abacus. Here at starts we explain how it is important to hold the abacus correctly as this will prevent any unwanted movement of the abacus and the beads when calculating. We introduce our techniques at this level by using Flash cards , speed writing . Students spend 3 months at this level .

Junior Levels

UCMAS Qatar offer Junior program for kids age 6 to 13 years old , we have three Construction Modules in this stage .
1- Basic Level 1
2- Elementary A Level 2
3- Elementary B Level 3
Each level is 3 months. .