Our Program
Image Exercise
Speed Hearing
Brainwave Pattern Training
Image Abacus
Activates Both Sides of the Brain
Fast Math is Just the Beginning!
Image Abacus is a method of mental calculation. Performed on a virtual image of the abacus formed in the mind, it is based on the principles of abacus calculation. In this case, the abacus is merely a tool, through regular practice of which children are able to visualize and internalize the image of the abacus in their mind.
By activating both sides of the brain, all students can achieve calculation speeds that were previously only achievable by math geniuses.
As a matter of fact, in Dec. 2000, a first-year student and his 2 sisters broke 4 Guinness world records with this very same method of calculation.
Read the full story at the Taiwan Government’s official web site.
Image Abacus trains the students to use the left hemispheres (logical side) to manipulate the virtual abacus (image) on the right hemispheres (abstract side). This unique exercise fosters and strengthens the brain function and can improve the following areas:
- Confidence in calculation.
- Mental calculation, which is the ultimate resource.
- Sense of achievement as one’s proficiency improves.
- Tremendious development of the right brain
- Greater mental capacity.
- Intuitive thinking.
- Problem solving capability.
- Enhances creativity.
- Memory capacity.
- Concentration and mental endurance.
Speed Hearing
Unlocks Your Child's POtential
Fast Math is Just the Beginning!
Speed hearing research started in the US army in around 1956. Applying speed hearing as a training for executives was pioneered by the Japanese in the late 70’s. Today, more then 700,000 people has been trained with speed hearing.
Our mind can be trained by employing the principle of overwhelmingness. Neurologically, this is called “use dependent plasticity”. The most common experience for us is highway driving. After driving at highway speed for a while (say an hour or two) we will find that it is almost hard to drive at city speed. It is because once our brain become accustomed to having information coming at a fast pace, it is actually hard to slow down!
Studies have shown that reading and listening programs using advanced computer-based technology can stimulate brain cell development and enhance 19 brain functions, improving the basis point of one’s IQ by 5% to 25%.
By combining Image Abacus and Speed Listening training, we have created a brain exercise like no other. The intensive comprehension and calculation required to complete the task, causes most of the actual information processing to be off-loaded to the right brain for faster processing. With regular training, students will gain unrestricted access to the right hemisphere of their brains. This is similar to when we learn how to ride a bike, we are instinctively were able to balance ourselves on it without having to think about it every time.
As we all know, regular weight training will produce more dense muscles for our body. The same is true for our brain. Regular Speed Listening training produces a much denser synapses network (a neural pathway with much more connection points between cells), capable of a higher volume and speed of communication between brain cells.
To make this training possible, we employ custom developed computer-aided training systems and speech synthesizers to accurately control the speed (words per minute), duration and level of difficulty of each exercise. These training programs were designed using our own “Brain Wave Optimization” EEG biofeedback research. The result is an achievable, progressive program that will benefit each and every one of our students. We guarantee that each student will show improvements in focus and concentration, faster and more intuitive thinking, better memory and of course, incredible or superior math capability.
BrainWave Pattern
Biofeedback: The "Little" Breakthrough in Learning
Fast Math is Just the Beginning!
Our brain is an electrochemical organ. When working, different regions of the brain emit different frequencies called brain waves. After decades of measuring brain wave patterns of natural leaders, artists, scientists and creative minds of all walks of life, research has found that brain wave patterns are directly related to our behaviors, capabilities and performances. The optimal pattern called “The Awakened Mind” was released in 1979 by British psycho physiologist and biophysicist C. Maxwell Cade.
Combines the following all at the same time: – the intuitive, emphasis radar of the deltawaves – the creative inspiration, personal insight, and spiritual awareness of theta waves – the bridging capacity of relaxed, detatched, awareness of Alpha waves – the external attention and ability to consciously process thought of Beta waves. This brainwave pattern can be found during “peak experience” or “peak performance”, regardless of the content or intention, in all forms of tasks requiring creativity and high performance. It is not “which” frequency, but “how the frequencies combine”, that determines our optimum states of consciousness. 
The “Ah-Ha” Wave Pattern
The “Ah-ha!” experience — where we suddenly “get it,” gain an insight, or when a great idea suddenly comes to us — produces a brain wave pattern very similar to the “awakened mind” pattern. This pattern is characterized by the bursts of beta and alpha waves.
When an “ah-ha” experience occurs, an association has been created between the problem requiring resolution and the mass of unconscious learning that is available to the subject. It is possible to train the brain to generate the “ah-ha” pattern.
The super learning state, which shares some characteristics with peak performance brain wave pattern, occurs when alpha and thetaa waves dominate. However, in the super learning state the beta wave is reduced. The result is a unique state where the brain can accept a much larger volume of information than is normally possible. This occurs because the normal conscious filter of the mind is by-passed; instead, the knowledge is absorbed directly and in an unfiltered state.
The goal of the image abacus training system is to provide the student with control over these brain wave patterns. This control will allow the student to access the desirable brain wave pattern for the learning which is required. Employing the core “speed hearing” technique and progressing through a carefully designed series of graduated calculation exercises, the student is trained to achieve the optimal state of mind for the task at hand.
The power of the image abacus system consists of its manipulation of three key variables: difficulty of the task, task duration, and the speed at which the task must be accomplished. Manipulation of these variables requires sophisticated technology as does measurement of the student’s response. Abacus Brain Study (ABS) is one of the very few institutions in the world, and unique in North America, that provides the equipment, training program and instructional support to guide your child through this system. The outcome is that one goes far beyond the ability to perform fast calculations. The lasting effect is the student’s acquisition of a tool that will support all future learning experiences.