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The Ripple Effect of Abacus Learning Earlier only a hypothesis but now a fact, based on research data and high tech machinery, using an abacus to perform mental calculations develops the right brain. Also, besides a dramatic improvement in the ability to calculate, both on the abacus and mentally, there is a beneficial ripple effect on other areas of learning. The first is an improvement of numerical memory, next memory in spatial arrangement and last advancement in solving general mathematical problems taught in elementary school, including the four fundamental Arithmeticoperations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and word problems. The enhancement in the numerical memory is possible because abacus learners place numbers on the image of an abacus in their imagination as they mentally calculate with the abacus method. An assignment to remember three to nine digit numbers read aloud, memorized and orally recited would decide the extent of the numerical memory of learners. Abacus learners were found to be far superior in the accuracy of their memory and the number of digits they were able to memorize when compared to the non-abacus learners. The abacus image in their imagination also helped them recite the memorized numbers backwards. This could only happen because of the application of the procedures used in the abacus method of calculation in approaching the memory assignment.