All About Abacus Training

[adafew]

My DS1 has been very coorporative when asked to do piles of Abacus homework and he seems to be getting into the ‘interest’ as there are ‘reward’ chops. So he is keen to know if he gets more rewards on his lesson days. He is also starting to use what he learned in Abacus (mental calculation) for his maths assessment.


Personally I think Abacus do helps.

[vannessa]

Hi

Since abacus might confuse the kids with number bonds taught in school, would learning finger maths be good enough? I am still hesitating between CMA and finger maths organised by cc. Anybody care to share your experience on finger maths classes?

[snggy]

My son has been taking lessons from CMA since 5yo. He is in P1 now. They are trained to \"see\" the abacus in the brain and training the brain to concentrate and compute as needed. It is certainly a good course to train the brain. But please do not expect it to be the alternative for learning maths.


In Primary school, english is important for them to do their maths well. Questions are tricky and they need to think. It has nothing to do with abacus or mental abacus. They are of course a tool where the kids can add faster and accurate. But purely to add, minus, multiply and division.

My younger son is also enrolled into the class as well. It is good to learn when younger. You will have to know the objective of what you want to acheive out of it.

[twinnies mummy]

Hi, does anyone know of a good abacus class/school near Sengkang or Hougang. I'm intending to enrol my 5 year old girl in.


Thanks.

[Cinta]

hi, i hv intended to sent my son to abacus class. He will be in P1 next yr. I hope it is not too late for him to get started. Anyone noe of any gd abacus class in Tampines? Txs.:idea:

[pokemon]

hi twinnies mummy and cinta,


Try CMA abacus sch. im not sure if they hv branches in your neighbrhd, but u can chk them out from the web. My ds hs bn there since 4yo, now he is 6, finishing the mental arithmetic. They really count fast, im amazed, cant compete with him bt prepare for home work to do.

[adafew]

Cinta:

hi, i hv intended to sent my son to abacus class. He will be in P1 next yr. I hope it is not too late for him to get started. Anyone noe of any gd abacus class in Tampines? Txs.:idea:

There is a CMA at B201 Tampines. You can try that. It is never too late. I just started my DS1 who is going P1 on Abacus too.

[Cinta]

pokemon:

hi twinnies mummy and cinta,


Try CMA abacus sch. im not sure if they hv branches in your neighbrhd, but u can chk them out from the web. My ds hs bn there since 4yo, now he is 6, finishing the mental arithmetic. They really count fast, im amazed, cant compete with him bt prepare for home work to do.

txs pokemon n adafew. how much will it be? coz i checked out in of the cc in tampines area is $105.

[mummyloves]

My kid went to CMA for 2 years and finally begged to stop. think he found the drilling too repetitive and boring…


Guess it’s different strokes for diff folks!

My advice is before you sign up for abacus, think if your kid is those type who wouldn’t mind repetitive h/w.

And also I feel CMA is too ex… friends found similar abacus teaching but at lower prices.

cheers

[Cinta]

mummyloves:

My kid went to CMA for 2 years and finally begged to stop. think he found the drilling too repetitive and boring...


Guess it's different strokes for diff folks!

My advice is before you sign up for abacus, think if your kid is those type who wouldn't mind repetitive h/w.

And also I feel CMA is too ex... friends found similar abacus teaching but at lower prices.

cheers

txs so much for yr feedback. I heard also there will b alot of hwk too n my little dearest is the type who will get bored easily. Anyway the intention is still pending. :thankyou: