Hyderabad|India|October'2009: While some kids are playing in the
holidays, about two thousand kids did a thing differently. Instead of
playing at home with friends, they played with numbers at a state level
Abacus, Mental & Arithmetic Competition being held at Hyderabad
International Convention Centre (HICC), Madhapur, Hyderabad on the 3rd of
Oct.
Some Two Thousand 5-12 years old kids undeterred by terrential rain in
state, inlcuding some tiny tot Amul children of five years wearing Swine
Flue Masks and pillows in the bottom to raise their level on the chair
competed at the State Level Abacus, Mental & Arithmetic Competition, using
their human computer, solving in jiffy 125 to 150 problems in just five
minutes. It was visula delight to watch them speedily solving mathematical
problems.
Chief Guest Mr. Damodar Raja Narasimha, Minister for Marketing and
Warehousing, Government of Andhra Pradesh inaugurated the same. Addressing
the kids before the inauguration he said “my love for children brought me
here today. And i firmly believe student’s allround growth and development
will help the students to think in a creative and innovative way. All of
us know, we Indian are rich in human resource and should exploit this
strength. I firmly believe students are our national treasure”, he said.
SIP Academy India Pvt. Ltd., which imparts children’s skills development
programs using internationally acclaimed tools ‘Abacus’ and ‘BrainGym’ is
organized the Andhra Pradesh Regional of SIP Prodigy 2009, a national
abacus, mental and arithmetic skills contest here at HICC, Hyderabad.
Immediately after the competition a Graduation Day ceremony held. 21 kids
K. Ahwan Reddy, M. Itesh, S. Santosh, K. Sai Akhil, A. Sai Phanith, G.
Karuna Sree, V. V. Sai Ram, Ch. Harsh, Aditya Phani Manoj, Vinish Reddy,
Pramod Chakravarthay, Ishaan Paul, ishab Vashist, Asmita Nandi, jai
Parikh, Varun, Sushmita Sridhar, Priay, Disha Parwani, Ritika Rupani and
Chirag Rupani who successfully passed out Grand Master Level C were given
away certificates. Children sporting orange colour graduation robes,
received certificates and their parents along with grand parents were
felicitated with shawl.
The winners of the competition will be declared later in the evening. The
winners of this state level contest will go on to compete in the national
and international contests to be held later this year. Children who have
conquered their fear of mathematics will showcase their prodigal skills in
abacus and their mathematical prowess in the biggest ever state-level
contest of its kind. This year the International Level Competition is
being hosted at Chennai at the Chennai Trade Centre in November.
The contest is being organised by SIP Academy India Pvt. Ltd., the Indian
arm of SIP Academy SDN BHD, Malaysia. SIP Academy India has about 500
centres in about 50 cities in 20 states with nearly 1,00,000 plus students
undergoing training at various levels since inception. The objective of
the contest is to evaluate the mental potential of the children through
auditory, visual and kinesthetic skills. These skills improve the
abilities of concentration, memory retentions and recall, which speeds up
the learning process with more accuracy. The results of the contest will
be announced during the day.
We often hear “Mathematics is so boring”, “I am just not good with
numbers”, etc. from many students. Maths anxiety / fear of mathematics
takes its root right in the foundation years i.e. childhood. Programs like
Abacus and BrainGym offered by us at SIP Academy introduce new ways of
learning maths and gives the students opportunities to challenge
themselves, informs Mr. Dinesh Victor, Managing Director – SIP Academy
India Pvt. Ltd. The programmes offered by us help the children to get rid
of numeric phobia.
The results seen after the students undergo training at our centers are
amazing. With our whole brain development programme, one can easily build
intelligence in children in the age group of 6 to 12 years. Intelligence
is nothing but the ability to gain and apply knowledge and skills.
Learning to compute numbers mentally promotes learning ability, in other
words, whole brain development. That is what the SIP Abacus and Brain Gym
programmes are about. This contest is to evaluate those skills and talents
in these children, informed Mr. Dinesh.
Adding further Mr. J. Sampath Kumar, Head - AP Operations, SIP Academy
India informed that Abacus and BrainGym are internationally acclaimed
programs that are widely popular in many countries like China, Malaysia,
Indonesia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Singapore, UAE and India for the past
four years. These are aimed at holistic development of the child’s brain
by developing life long skills in a child. Developed by Dr. Paul Dennison
of EDU-K of USA, Abacus and Brain Gym program is a system of education
that maximizes the potential of the Childs brain. This process develops
Kinesthetic (Touch and Feel), Visualization (Observations / retention and
recall) and auditory skills (Listening skills) etc. In the initial stages,
students use tools such as Abacus for the calculations. (Abacus was said
to be a basis for the computer algorithms, when the computer was
invented.) And at a later stage, students are able to do calculations
mentally without any aid.
SIP Academy India Pvt. Ltd. is the Indian arm of the SIP Academy SDN BHD,
Malaysia. SIP Academy Malaysia operates in more than 13 countries like UK,
South Africa, India, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, UAE, Sri Lanka and
Singapore etc. training more than seven lakh children across 1400 centers
with 2800 course instructors.
