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Course in Abacus mental maths Publish Date: Thursday,5 February, 2009, at 10:34 PM Doha Time Gama Abacus and MES officials announce the training programme GAMA Abacus mental arithmetic and memory techniques training programme will be launched tomorrow at MES Off Campus Centre for school students in the age group of four to 15 years. Abacus is used for making calculations. Mental Arithmetic is visualising abacus in mind doing fast calculations. Memory Technique is especially designed for visualisation and imagination. First six months is for foundation course in Abacus. In the first level (first three months) children are taught about abacus and how to use it. They will learn addition and subtraction up to 99. In the second level, children visualise abacus. In all, there are eight levels of Abacus training. The course is of two-hour duration every week. The entire course covers two years coaching. "The programme enhances the performance of right brain and co-ordinate the functioning of right and left brain, and the overall performance of children will be at the peak," Gama Abacus chief executive K Nakulanathan said. Gama Abacus is an ISO certified organisation functioning in 24 countries. MES governing body joint secretary A T Usman is the Qatar co-ordinator. P Manoharan is the programme co-ordinator. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
