What type of intelligence does your child possess?
With new professions and competition growing with equal pace, it is no more education alone that matters. It is the education to suit the type of intelligence your child possesses.

As a simple example look at the way things are stored in kitchen. Few items are stored in air-tight containers, some in bottles, and some others in refrigerator. Similarly, children have specific interests & related intelligence. Thus specific ways exist to groom a particular kind of intelligence. Forcing children with a specific intelligence to work on something else is just like storing salt in the refrigerator and oil in a basket. This might result in lower performance levels and may leave the child uninspired.

After research, psychologists have classified intelligence into 7 types Linguistic, logical mathematical, bodily kinaesthetic, spatial, musical, interpersonal and intrapersonal. Identifying the type of intelligence of your child and helping them progress in that discipline will assure their success. It is not necessary that your child should possess all forms of intelligence.

Sachin Tendulkar stands a classic example for Kinaesthetic and intrapersonal intelligence. Today he is a celebrated cricketer because he chose a career, which suited his type of intelligence. There are a lot of other examples & history stands testimony to it.

Speaking about intelligence we should understand that Intelligence quotient (IQ) is just a measure of the reasoning ability of a person. A lower IQ may not mean a lower intelligence level, as the measurement does not happen specific to the types.

SIP programs are designed to identify and develop the different types of intelligence.

How can SIP Abacus and Brain Gym program help nurturing your child's intelligence?
The SIP Abacus & Brain Gym program has been designed to improve not only a child's calculating ability and understanding of arithmetic, but also to increase the memory power and creativity, the concentration level and the listening skill, as well as the ability to analyze problem. On top of loving math for lifelong success, our ultimate goal is to build the child's confidence level in their school work and life.

By using the well-researched methodology, SIP ABG programme helps children quickly improve their ability to calculate as much as 2 to 10 times. By stimulating both the left and the right sides of the brain during the training process, experts believe that abacus & mental arithmetic (MA) training is the key to optimal learning capability.

Why does SIP ABG programme use arithmetic as the subject of the training and how important is mental arithmetic?
Arithmetic is remarkably important for helping young children build up a solid academic foundation. Teachers who work with young children know that it is not easy to introduce the concept of numbers and their values. For young children to comprehend the concepts of mathematics when presented only in the abstract form will take a long process. Abstract means using nothing but brain power to solve problems. It is difficult for children to comprehend numeric relationships without using concrete objects such as abacus beads to relate numeric values.

Learning how to compute numbers mentally is equally important, as it effectively taps the unexploited parts of the brain & therefore promotes the overall intelligence. The practice of mental arithmetic will sharpen the imaginative and memory power. According to a scientific research, a child who lacks good mental formation can experience a sharp decline in mental abilities even as early as the age of 20. On the other hand, a child who receives this formation by the age of 12 will continue to remain brilliant even up to the age of 70.

Why is learning abacus important while calculators & computers are available for computing numbers in the world today?
Although calculators and computers have replaced human brain in computing numbers, learning abacus is a must for every child because it is instrumental in developing whole brain and lifetime skills. Using abacus requires co-ordination of the main nerves of the human body such as sight, sound and finger movement which will induce growth of brain cells. The mind undergoes three main stages of development namely physical contact, logical explanation and visualization throughout the process and the abacus acts as a bridge that connects the three stages. More than 80% of the world population are right-handed and right-handed people normally have more developed left brain with less developed right brain. While the creativity side of the right brain is more than a thousand times than that of the left brain. Learning abacus will stimulate the development of the right brain at an early age. The practice of abacus involves finger movements & also helps in blood circulation thereby enhancing the overall health of the individual.