WO2013088450A1 - Abaque indien - Google Patents

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WO2013088450A1
WO2013088450A1 PCT/IN2011/000901 IN2011000901W WO2013088450A1 WO 2013088450 A1 WO2013088450 A1 WO 2013088450A1 IN 2011000901 W IN2011000901 W IN 2011000901W WO 2013088450 A1 WO2013088450 A1 WO 2013088450A1
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Naina Mohamed BASHEER AHAMED
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    • G09B—EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
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  • UCMAS India introduced in India for the first time Abacus Education as a formal training program for the children of 4 - 13 years for the benefits that the Abacus based calculations derive to the children.
  • a great amount of work of UCMAS India Corporate office and the network of Franchisees and the Course Instructors has gone into the subject.
  • UCMAS India Corporate office at India, the National Franchisee for India did specially undertake to do enormous amount of study based research.
  • the Research papers and the articles have been appearing in the publication, UCMAS TIMES, the house journal - RNI NO: TNENG/2005/15210, published from India, India by Dr. Basheer Ahamed, Managing Director, UCMAS (India) Pvt. Ltd., and the editorial team members.
  • Indian Abacus would give a place of pride for India for making a new generation Abacus, which is largely different in its looks, features and so in its advantages and benefits to the user.
  • Visual memory enhancement is highly pronounced with the usage of Indian Abacus.
  • the objective is also to define a place for Abacus for India.
  • the creation of Indian Abacus fulfilling that. Concentration is therefore a matter which gets the best advantage and the children get much enhanced skill to concentrate.
  • Indian Abacus is the result of long lasting research from the organization UCMAS, which has 2600 Abacus Training Centres, 6000 Trainers and more than 7.0 lac student enrolments in India, ever since the Abacus Training program was introduced by UCMAS in the year 1999, under the stewardship of Dr. Basheer Ahamed.
  • Mesopotamian abacus "The period 2700-2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, (courtesy Wikipedia)
  • Chinese abacus The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC. It usually has more than seven rods. There are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom, (courtesy Wikipedia)
  • Japanese abacus "I n Japanese, the abacus is called Soroban, imported from China around 1600. The 1/4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation. The use of the soroban is still taught in Japanese primary schools as part of mathematics, primarily as an aid to faster mental calculation".
  • Korean abacus The Chinese abacus migrated from China to Korea around 1400 AD. Koreans call it jupan, supan or jusan. (courtesy Wikipedia)
  • Russian abacus The Russian abacus, the schoty, usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire
  • the Russian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book, (courtesy Wikipedia) Indian Abacus
  • Indian Abacus is an answer to the long lasting call for "generation change” with the evolution to bring in greatly desired “Visualization” a vastly impacting skill factor.
  • Indian Abacus is a solution to meet the inadequacies and the limitations that hindered the effective usage of the magic tool abacus to bring out the best of skills.
  • the material, design, manufacture that are greatly different in the Indian Abacus brings in a great change in the Features, advantages and benefits of the Indian Abacus.
  • Indian Abacus thus is a smarter cousin of the conventional abacus.
  • the importance of the Indian Abacus could be measured through the skills and the benefits that the student of Abacus derives by using the Indian Abacus.
  • the birth of Indian Abacus therefore brings in a revolutionary change in the Abacus based results that the student of abacus would experience.
  • Indian Abacus in a bigger size is also available which is called as "Teacher's Abacus".
  • Indian Abacus used by teachers is also of the same design, but it is used by the teacher/s for coaching the children in Abacus Mental Arithmetic calculations.
  • the large size - Indian Abacus for teachers is hung on the wall or made to stand on a stand to explain to the students how the Abacus is operated to do the arithmetic calculations.
  • the Teacher Abacus is only to explain to the children getting trained in the subject to gain the skills. For mastering after learning and practicing to perfect the skills, Indian Abacus for Students - smaller version - is only used.
  • Image capture is vividly greater through colour image projections in the Indian Abacus than the dull and mundane colour beads of the conventional abacus, which are all uniform and homogenous.
  • colour of the beads is one
  • Value and non-Value beads through their bead positions actually blur the view resulting in not so-high-quality results & also ends in stress to the eyes.
  • Flash card like abacus value positions the Indian Abacus came into its very clearly defined design and structure after a great deal of deliberations, trials and errors and a series of rough-work design structures. Obstacles & deficiencies were slowly & steadily removed and the design was perfected after a great deal of work - mental and physical.
  • That Visualization as the right brain routine is the key factor for Abacus to change the Abstract numbers into objective experience, through image capture by the brain.
  • Indian Abacus makes Visualization process involving faster & stronger image-capture due to the distinct colour based images possible. They are not only distinct by the ' inherent colour of the images but also through the enhanced possibility of capture of coloured images in a contrast & uniform colour background, which makes the visualization more pronounced.
  • Indian Abacus the new-gen tool
  • the generic abacus which was new - years back has been far from , meeting the changing requirements.
  • Indian Abacus with its emergence takes the abacus users by surprise.
  • the improvement in design could mean a great change in the learning and skill levels post learning.
  • Abacus has been potentially a great tool and has a life that cut across times, generations, cultures and deserved exploration of further strengths from out of it through the changes / improvements / modifications in design, which would mean greatly impacting results.
  • Thousands of years that Abacus travelled to be with us even today as a live "magic frame of beads" is a standing testimony to the greatness of this fram of limited beads and unlimited numbers.
  • Indian Abacus with its improved design features makes possible more qualitative visualization than the conventional Abacus which does not offer required scope for the visualization to attain its pinnacle.
  • the colour images projected by the operation of the upper or lower sliders through their upper and/or lower movements towards the bar actually represent the value positions.
  • the colour images and the representing values are very clear and more impacting in the Indian Abacus.
  • the basic frame made of Quality polystyrene, which is a single integral piece, is chosen to be made in the "Yellowish Cream” colour, which is a very friendly background for the eyes to work with.
  • the basic frame consists of the upper and lower window positions, which are separated by a slim rib (which can be also called the bar), hosting the home points, represented by a thick "DOTS".
  • the sliders could be moved up and down to display value & non value positions by uncovering and/or covering the colour images. (Annexure-1 )
  • Colour display makes the eyes catch the slider positions thereby the values distinctly.
  • the non value beads tend to disturb the vision and the abacus practitioner has a blurred vision of the value beads and the values.
  • the conventional abacus has its inherent limitations.
  • the slider positions showing colours are the value positions and the slider positions Which sink with creamish background are considered as non-value positions.
  • the picture below displays the non-value positions.
  • the value displayed on the abacus is 'ZERO"
  • the colour and non-colour positions of slider positions remove the confusions and the disturbing view, as experienced in the Conventional Abacus.
  • the features mean either value or no value positions which are clear and understanding & memory registry are easier.
  • Brain has greater advantage to capture and register the colours thus making the calculations more correct and brain skills better.
  • the back cover houses the important components together and in proper positions and closely synchronized.
  • the back cover is the other essential component which makes the assembly of the Indian Abacus tool more compact and smooth to operate. Advantages & Benefits as explained in the previous point.
  • Each slider is a value carrying component. Its value is determined by pushing it up or pulling it down.
  • the other representation is each slider has a value depending upon the slot position (rod position in the conventional abacus) which gives the Units, tens, hundreds positions.
  • Each slider is a very small rectangular shaped
  • HIPS piece engineered to the requirement with a cylindrical & horizontally placed button like structure in the centre.
  • the upper slider (1 no. for each slot) displays value through Red colour display when pushed down & the lower sliders (4 nos. for each slot) display value through green colour display when they are pushed individually or collectively up. It means that Upper slider, when pushed up, loses that value and the lower slider/s loses/lose value when they are pushed down.
  • Indian Abacus thus enables usage by the conventional abacus practitioner and the change-over is smooth & seamless.
  • ABACUS The Indian Abacus is a "A Tool for calculation which does not require power to operate" "The nimble fingers of a young child could manipulate the sliders for calculation purposes" . It is semi abstract and pictorial with colour display in representing numbers. Numbers are represented by the slider positions displaying colour.
  • This tool contains 17 vertical rods/slots. Each rod contains totally 5 sliders. The bar within the frame runs horizontally and divides each rod/slots bisecting it into 2 parts. The sliders below the bar on each rod are called lower sliders. The slider above the bar on each rod is called upper slider. There are 4 lower sliders and 1 upper slider in each rod.
  • each lower slider value position is 1 and upper slider value position is 5. Thus the total value on each rod could be a maximum of "9".
  • Each slider gets value, only when it touches the bar. To add . a number, we move the slider towards the bar and to subtract, we move it away from the bar. In the abacus, the operation is always left to right, digit by digit (for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) .

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un abaque indien qui constitue un outil pour le calcul permettant un apprentissage rapide et précis d'arithmétique mentale des enfants âgés de 4 à 13 ans, plus particulièrement pour les aider à améliorer leur aptitudes cérébrales telles que la CONCENTRATION, la VISUALISATION (MEMOIRE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE) par l'activation du cerveau droit, le siège de l'intelligence. La présente invention fournit un outil pouvant afficher une image couleur représentant une valeur quelconque par le déplacement de curseurs de haut en bas. L'abaque indien constitue une réponse à la demande répétée pour un « changement générationnel » avec une évolution pour introduire une " Visualisation" tant souhaitée qui est un facteur d'aptitude de grand impact. L'amélioration de la mémoire visuelle est fortement prononcée avec l'usage de l'abaque indien.
PCT/IN2011/000901 2011-12-16 2011-12-29 Abaque indien WO2013088450A1 (fr)

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US2646631A (en) * 1947-01-22 1953-07-28 Lazar Nathan Combined abacus and counting rack
GB1321912A (en) * 1970-07-23 1973-07-04 Mackenzie A Device for use in teaching children simple arithmetic
US20070238078A1 (en) * 2006-03-29 2007-10-11 Rueyin Chiou Method for teaching fundamental abacus math skills
US20080096169A1 (en) * 2004-08-24 2008-04-24 Ye-Eun Kim Abacus for Math and English
US20080280273A1 (en) * 2005-10-13 2008-11-13 Han-Cheun Lee Multipurpose Abacus

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US861541A (en) * 1906-10-12 1907-07-30 Franz Rieck Calculating-stand.
US2646631A (en) * 1947-01-22 1953-07-28 Lazar Nathan Combined abacus and counting rack
GB1321912A (en) * 1970-07-23 1973-07-04 Mackenzie A Device for use in teaching children simple arithmetic
US20080096169A1 (en) * 2004-08-24 2008-04-24 Ye-Eun Kim Abacus for Math and English
US20080280273A1 (en) * 2005-10-13 2008-11-13 Han-Cheun Lee Multipurpose Abacus
US20070238078A1 (en) * 2006-03-29 2007-10-11 Rueyin Chiou Method for teaching fundamental abacus math skills

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US11314275B2 (en) 2019-07-26 2022-04-26 Ameerah Anakaona Bello Adaptable educational device

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