We know kids of the Gen-Next are super-fast and thoughtful. They’ll know their aims and plans for future way ahead of time and even start working towards achieving their goals well in advance. Shall we get introduced to one such thoughtful and brilliant kid from your city today?
Meet G. Nagashri, a child from Mysore who is all of ten, but knows what she wants to do once she grows up. “I want to be an IAS officer,” she adorably says when asked what her aim is for life, “I will study real hard to achieve this goal.”
But dreaming apart, what is the little girl doing to achieve her dreams? Nagashri, a V std. student of Avila Convent is an Abacus expert. Learning the same since 3 years now, she has been constantly winning first prizes and also Super first prizes in every Abacus competition that she competes in and is admired and looked up to by her Abacus tutors.
Talking of her expertise in the same, Vijayalakshmi Muralidhar, Chairperson of the Up Kidz Abacus Academy where Nagashri is training says, “Nagashri is a brilliant kid who is very good at Abacus. She joined us three years ago. We have about 20 centres of our own across Mysore for all of which we together conduct competitions frequently. And ever since Nagashri joined us, she has been constantly winning the first prize and super first prize in all the contests held. We are glad to have a student like her.”
The girl has won over 7 prizes and can easily solve 50 mathematics sums in three-five minutes, with or without the Abacus instrument which makes her a brilliant child, according to Vijayalakshmi.
What’s more is, the girl also excels in academics at her class and is a staunch lover of Mathematics according to her mother Geetha.“She joined abacus to sharpen her brain and to be able to learn and study better,” Geetha says, adding, “We enrolled her into abacus coaching as we wanted her to find the subject of Maths interesting. And once we did, she has been simply enjoying the subject all the more. And we are glad she is liking it as Maths is one subject which will help her sharpen her brain in all ways.”
Having started learning abacus at the age of 7, it has helped her lot in solving her school mathematics as well, the kid says and feels excited that she can answer complicated maths sums within minutes with ease. And her mother adds on to say that the course is also helping a lot in boosting her potential and aiding a positive augmentation of self confidence within. Let us wish Nagashri all the luck !
Nagashri is the daughter of Geetha and Guruprasad.
Abacus and it’s uses
• Abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was used centuries ago before the adoption of the written modern numeral system.
• Abacus method of calculations is believed to be one of the fastest methods of calculations and the Abacus device was invented in-order to aid counting of larger numbers.
• Abacus motivates kids, boasts their self-confidence, brilliance and attentiveness.
• Helps them love the subject of Maths and solve Mathematics sums with ease. — AN
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / December 27th, 2013