"I strongly recommend abacus to any parent who wants to ensure their child gets ahead"

My name is Nina Wilson. I am a National Board Certified Teacher with over a decade of teaching experience. My husband and I are both educators. We decided to enroll our daughter in abacus after hearing of its success from a family friend. Our daughter has never struggled academically, however, we know that nationwide math has become an area of concern.

​Our 7 year old daughter has been in the abacus program for one full semester. Her progress in this short time has more than exceeded our expectations. From the beginning, both I and other parents noticed how our children’s concentration increased and spilled over to other venues of their lives. It was a joy to watch my daughter’s self-confidence grow with her newfound intellect. She became very proud of herself and her own accomplishments from week to week. During the process, as new concepts were introduced she would become frustrated, but as she practiced and felt herself becoming more proficient, her confidence grew and she excelled. She learned to push beyond her frustration until she achieved success.

It is not uncommon for my daughter to ask for numbers to add and subtract whenever there is a moment of unfilled time. In restaurants, while driving in the car, at home – she enjoys practicing! I’ll never forget the reaction of my family members when Caitlyn was able to come up with the correct response to a math equation before my older brother, sister, and mom. They each have advanced degrees from college and yet my 7 year-old-daughter was out-adding and subtracting them. Everyone was completely amazed at her speed and accuracy. Their reactions only fueled Caitlyn’s fire to become more and more proficient at math.

Since both my husband and I are educators, we get a chance to see firsthand the effects of not being adequately academically prepared. We know that our students struggle in math nationwide. We feel blessed beyond measure to have been exposed to Abacus Brain Gym's teaching of abacus to our daughter.

Of all the things parents have to worry about with their children, we now have one worry to cross off of our list! We are confident that with the abacus approach to math, our daughter will be more than adequately prepared in math. Abacus has opened a whole new world for our daughter. She has gained such confidence in herself and feels good about her accomplishments. She is able to track her own growth in math and push herself to get better. She is learning life lessons along with the abacus approach to math. She is learning how preparation leads to preparedness.

​​I strongly recommend this program to any parent who wants to ensure that their child gets ahead!

Nina Wilson

Mom | Assistant Professor, University of Texas
​United States