What the scenery of the northland, with ice-bound snow covering with large motherland, snowflakes dancing in the vast cloudland. More than 100 students gathered in the meeting room of Yipin Jiliang International Hotel, eagerly looking forward to the training with high enthusiasm. With the high attention and strong support of Changchun Municipal Finance Bureau and the careful planning and arrangement by Changchun Municipal Abacus Association, the 2022 Training Class for Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Teaching Research and Popularization Faculty in Changchun was held on January 12, 2022!
Feng Chunqiu (Secretary-General of the Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Association of Jilin Province), Qu Xingli (Director of Changchun Finance and Accounting Personnel Education Center and Vice President of Changchun Abacus Association), Du Haiyang (Deputy Director of Changchun Finance and Accounting Personnel Education Center and Deputy Secretary-General of Changchun Abacus Association) and more than 120 teachers of abacus and mental arithmetic from more than 30 public schools in Kuancheng District, Jiutai District, Shuangyang District, Nong’an County, Yushu City and Dehui City participated in the training. The opening ceremony was presided over by Meng Liying, Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Abacus Association.
Qu Xingli extended a warm welcome to the leaders, lecturers and students, and put forward four suggestions for the training, i.e., setting goals, focusing on results, implementing responsibilities and cherishing opportunities, expecting that all students put what they have learned into practice and make their trip worthwhile!
Feng Chunqiu highly appraised and recognized the achievements made by Changchun Municipal Abacus Association in the inheritance of abacus culture, the promotion of abacus and mental arithmetic education, the capital investment, and the development of abacus and mental arithmetic for the elderly. He expected that the teachers who participated in this training would learn something useful, continue to explore, strengthen research, and shoulder the mission of spreading abacus and mental arithmetic under the new situations.
The training is divided into three parts, i.e., lectures, demonstration classes, and exchange and discussion. At the same time, for the case that abacus and mental arithmetic enthusiasts in some regions could not participate in face-to-face training due to the epidemic, the training was carried out simultaneously in the form of face-to-face meeting and online video streaming. Mr. Jia Hao, an excellent teacher of abacus and mental arithmetic in Jilin Province from Zekui Kindergarten of Changchun No. 48 Middle School, explained in detail the teaching and training of direct addition and subtraction, carry-over addition and abdication subtraction.
Mr. Meng Qingbiao, a national senior teacher of abacus and mental arithmetic from Longjiadeyang Central School, Jiutai District, Changchun, gave specific guidance on the instruction and training skills for auditory arithmetic of abacus and mental arithmetic, and the training and improvement of excellent players, especially the introduction of the arithmetic method from abacus to mental arithmetic.
In the demonstration classes, several teachers explained the arithmetics, such as adding one when reaching five, carry-over addition when reaching five for 6, three-digit number multiplying two-digit number, and the abacus division with a two-digit result, in detailed from different angles and different levels. The teachers exchanged their roles and it was highly enthusiastic both on stage and off stage, with everyone enthusiastically trying to answer questions on stage, generating active, vivid and infectious classroom atmosphere.
The training lasted for four days, with the lecturers teaching all they knew and the students actively participating in. Excellent students and excellent demonstration class teachers were selected finally, and awarded with certificates of honor by Feng Chunqiu, Qu Xingli, Du Haiyang, etc.
The faculty training went from the easy to the difficult and had rich contents, from the addition and subtraction to the multiplication and division in abacus and mental arithmetic, and from the foundation to gradual improvement and then to the cultivation of excellent players. Through the lecturing teachers’ multi-dimensional and all-round explanation from the basic knowledge of abacus and mental arithmetic to the training of players, the participating teachers had a newer and more comprehensive understanding of abacus and mental arithmetic, and expressed that they would better apply the theoretical knowledge and training skills they had learned to the teaching practice.
It is everyone’s responsibility to carry forward the intangible cultural heritage of humanity and the culture of the Chinese nation. Changchun Municipal Abacus Association will remain true to its original aspiration and keep its mission firmly in mind by grasping the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, and constructing a new development pattern, so as to contribute more to the development of abacus in Changchun City and Jilin Province.