Looking for a good work out for your right brain?

[kaizasosei]

The abacus. The japanese version of the soroban as well as the chinese original suanpan train the right brain. At first it trains the left brain more because you deal with simple arithmetic and logic patterns, but as you progress you can begin to imagine the abacus in your minds eye and solve even complicated math problems with astounding speed-all in the head. Obviously also improve, concentration and memory.
Check it out if you're interested.

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[Carol]

Interesting! Yes, I'm a math geek, I find these things interesting

I never thought about the abacus in that fashion. Thanks for sharing :asian:

 

[kaizasosei]

I'm glad i could share!

I've been shown suanpan when i was a kid and thought it interesting but never practiced on my own.
But i recently managed to get myself a small 13 row soroban and i've actually noticed faster computing ability(while shopping or being confronted with random math problems) from just the past few weeks that i've been training. Before i got the soroban i practiced on an online java suanpan.

j