ALOHA National Level Competition on Mental Arithmetic 2023

ALOHA Bangladesh organised its 15th National Abacus & Mental Arithmetic competition 2023 in Bangladesh recently at Bashundhara International Convention City (ICCB) in the capital. The day-long competition, one of its kind in Bangladesh, was participated by 1600 children from 500+ schools across Bangladesh. ALOHA Bangladesh has been organising such competitions in Bangladesh since 2008.

The objective of this competition was to test the speed and accuracy of the children. Within 5 minutes duration of time, the participants have been asked to solve 70 complex sums and the majority of the students solved 70 complex problems with 100 % accuracy within the due time.

The programme started with the National anthem of Bangladesh. Mr Loh Mun Sung, Founder of Aloha Mental Arithmetic inaugurated this event. After the wishing speech, the children participate in the 5 minutes exam in four different batches.

The award ceremony took place in the second session. The chief guest of this event Mr Loh Mun Sung, Founder of Aloha Mental Arithmetic and special guest Ms Kiran Matwani, International Director of Aloha handed over awards to the winners.

Md. Ali Haider Chowdhury FCMA, Managing Director of ALOHA Bangladesh gave a welcome speech at the ceremony, while Mr Saiful Karim, Chairman of ALOHA Bangladesh led the program as session chairman and Mr Shamsuddin Tipu, Director, Aloha Bangladesh was also present as this moment.

"ALOHA Bangladesh is the first organization to bring internationally recognized Aloha Mental Arithmetic to Bangladesh from Malaysia for the total brain development of children aged between 4 and 13 years. It helps children build better concentration, self-confidence, sharper observation, keener listening skill, and enhanced memory retention power, and improved analytical skill, better creative and imaginative skill. The program helps children learn arithmetic in a fun way and improves their thinking capacity to do better in creative writing, social science, English, Bangla and other subjects", said Md. Ali Haider Chowdhury, Managing Director of ALOHA Bangladesh.

The event healthcare partner was Universal Medical Collage Hospital and the Event partner Niyaf Communications.

The selected winners are going to participate in Aloha International Competition 2023 in Malaysia.

Since March 2006 Aloha Bangladesh has been operating in Bangladesh. Aloha is an ISO certified learning system that works with more than 6 million students in 42 countries around the world, including the US, Canada, Australia, China, India, Malaysia and Bangladesh.