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.