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The Program
Genius Kid is a multi-year program, in which, during the first year, students will master additions and subtraction with multi-digit numbers in order to calculate mentally and the second year of the programme is dedicated to acquire the domination over multiplication and division operations. extra curricular 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.
Preparatory phase
THE CONCEPT OF NUMBERS 1 TO 10
The initial phase is applied for the youngest participants. The goal is to get acquainted with the concept of numbers and learn the laws that apply to numbers from 1 to 10 (complementarity of numbers). In this period, children still do not use a japanese abacus, but a classical abacus abacus (10 rows with 10 balls).
First phase
USE OF SOROBAN (JAPANESE ABAKUS)
The Abacus phase lasts during the initial levels, where the classical abacus is used. The calculation is performed by moving the balls, using the fingers of the left and right hands. The focus is on fine motor skills and intense sensory stimulus (sight, hearing, touch). The children first observe what the teacher shows them and listen to the instructions, and then take a concrete action on their own. This method starts an intensive brain process, because the fingers are constantly in motion by touching the balls. This activates tactile stimulus that further stimulates the centers in the brain by creating new neural connections (synapses). Using the fingers of both hands activates both cerebral hemispheres at the same time and increases cognitive capacity. That is why it can be rightly said that logical operations on the abacus represent real brain fitness, something like squats or push-ups for the brain!
Second phases
MENTAL ARITHMETICS AND VISUALIZATION
The phase of mental arithmetic (暗算, Japanese: Anzan) begins during higher levels at which the physical use of the abacus ceases. Now the children are starting to count by imagining an abacus in their own head. Observing, we can often see how they continue to move their fingers as if using a real abacus. Children developed the ability to visualize the abacus thanks to the activation of the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for imagination, photographic memory and creativity. Once this ability is developed, it is possible to continue practicing faster and more complicated computational operations, and children’s brains begin to behave like a real supercomputer.
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Questions and Answers
Genius Kid Groups
Group lessons, minimum 10, maximum 16 participants
Reporting on Individual Achievement
Reports on individual achievements of each student will be presented to parents.
Content of the lesson
Math exercises with abacus, developing games, brain fitness exercises, logical tasks
After Lessons opportunities
Online platform for games and homeworks
Organize and take part in international competitions -
Class Hours Per Year
- Intensive programme Hours80 Hours
- Standard programme Hours35 Hours
- Individual programme Hours 100 Hours