Chul-Ho Choi, founder of Abacomps.com and current CEO and President, is originally from South Korea and has studied for years under the Abacus training method and is a certified instructor. His main goal was to bring this unique and incredible method of mathematics to a broader audience with the experience and ability he learned from one of the world’s highest ranking educational systems. Since its establishment in 2006 Abacomps’ mission statement has been the same, overcoming a common fear of numbers. “We strive to overcome fear with confidence, we only have fear so bravery could exist and triumph. Math is nothing to be feared but something to be admired like art, we aim to show hope for those who saw none.” The premise of Abacomps is bettering one’s mathematic abilities and unlocking talents never shown. Improved problem solving, elevating memory and attention spans, rational thought and logical thinking, and ultimately a mastery of numbers is what Abacomps was founded on. “Every child has great potential” and that potential can and must be unveiled to achieve all goals thought intangible but not impossible.

Although ABACOMPS has been founded since 2006, the abacus learning method primarily used in our curriculum has been around for centuries. The abacus was first invented approximately 5000 years ago, in 3000 BC as a primitive method of calculation and counting to have an abstract idea of what math was at its earliest stage. The abacus was especially useful during these time as a manner of learning the operations of addition and subtraction to keep track of inventory such as grain to distributing finances during such early times. With the abacus providing a visual aid to supplement the growing discovery of the mathematic world, numbers became more commonplace in the world as time progressed and civilization was modernizing with each century. The Abacus started through humble beginnings as sticks and stones but became more advanced much like the math processes that later come to be as basic theories and concepts became expanded upon to discover further uses of the abacus for more meticulous manners of calculations.