What is UCMAS?

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UNIVERSAL CONCEPT MENTAL ARITHMETIC SYSTEM

The main objective of the UCMAS Abacus programme is to enhance the brain power of the children and remove the fear of Mathematics by making the arithmetic calculations easier.

UCMAS (India) Pvt. Ltd., was established in the year 1999 in the month of September. With its National Corporate Office located at Anna Nagar, Chennai-600 040, UCMAS started its Indian operations, bringing the concept to India as a National Franchisor, UCMAS-India took the responsibility of spreading the concept to benefit the children across all parts of India. Ever since its inception, the company grew steadily, appointing franchisees not only in Chennai but also outside the city - in various district locations. Today, UCMAS has centres in all the states of India. Apart from the Metro and other cities, UCMAS has its presence in all the towns, big and small and even in developed villages across the country. With the appointment of Master Franchisees for all the states, UCMAS-India has decentralized its operations with the sole idea of reaching out to more and more children and thus benefiting them.

UCMAS Network today comprises of more than 2400 centres all over the country with more than 6000 Course Instructors and 6.5 lac and above, student enrolments. The large network built has been the result of collective efforts of all the members of UCMAS family over the last 11 years.

UCMAS - India offers Abacus Education to children of all sections, especially the economically backward families, The company has initiated action by starting training centres tying up with NGOs. World Vision, India was the first to come forward and through their program they had initiated Abacus Education to the children of ''Tsunami'' affected families in the Tamil Nadu Coastal towns post year-2004 and also at Patna & Vaishali.

Before India became the hub for Abacus and Mental Arithmetic education, with Chennai as the happening place, there were only a few countries who were engaged in this field and all of them were in the far-eastern belt. With India becoming the fort for UCMAS Abacus Mental Arithmetic program, now calling, India a Gateway for the program, is no exaggeration.

UCMAS - A Global Organization

UCMAS took its roots in Malaysia and with the collaboration of Zhusuan Association, China, constantly rose with increased representation in different countries. UCMAS today boasts of its presence in countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Brunei, UAE.,Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Nigeria, U.K., USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, apart from India. The batches of students who have completed all the 8 terms ( 24 months program) form testimony to the brilliance that the concept benefits to the children.UCMAS is the only programme approved and certified by the two major Mental Arithmetic and Abacus Institutes of the world, which are CHINESE UTILITY ABACUS RESEARACH SOCIETY (TAIWAN) AND TAIWAN MENTAL ARITHMETIC ASSOCIATION. Thousands of R & D professors in China and Japan concentrate on this project to train the students. UCMAS-India Operations, which is ISO-9001: 2008 certified, with the systems built in, would continue to offer to parents, assured value of skills in children.

UCMAS (Universal Concept Mental Arithmetic System) is a Chinese based Abacus & Mental Arithmetic Concept. Abacus, which was for long used as a calculating tool in China and many other East Asian countries, was found to do greater good to the children of the age group 4 - 13 years. In the latter part of the 20th century, it was found after extensive research that Abacus learning not only enhanced the arithmetic skills, but also enriched the soft skills like Concentration, Listening, Photographic Memory, Speed and Accuracy, leading to Creativity and Presentation skills, of children. Research proves that during this period, brain growth is close to 80%. Today UCMAS, a 8 level syllabus concept, is popular in more than 40 countries starting from Malaysia

Arithmetic is extremely important for building up a solid academic foundation for our children. UCMAS Mental Arithmetic is an internationally well known powerful mental development programme. Our successful, step by step, guidance and motivational teaching method will, effectively activate children's latent Mental Power and develop memory, analysis, observation, creativity, judgment and self-confidence. The advantage of learning UCMAS Mental Arithmetic is to acquire high levels of Concentration, fine quality of Listening, Visualization, Creativity and Presentation skills and help in excelling in other academic subjects also.