Mental abacus training enhance children's creativity

Abstract EN

Mental abacus has many benefits on some cognitive abilities, for example IQ, memory, mental arithmetic, and reaction time.

Herewith, we investigated the effect of mental abacus on children's creativity.

Executed descriptive casual study included (1116) Sudanese children their age range (11-17), mental abacus trained are (529) they received training for period of (20) months, untrained are (587).

Their creative thinking assed by (TTCT- circles), we used T- test to analysis the data.

The result indicated that there are significant statistical differences between two groups in creative thinking in favor of mental abacus training.

The result clarified according to mental abacus neural basis which shared with visuo-spatial working memory, exciting right and left hemispheres, and viewpoint of Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT).