What is all this hype about flash card memorisation and mental mathematical abilities? Does it really help? Does it affect the child's brain? Or is it all rubbish? I've heard my Aunty go on and on about this and how her grandson is insanely smart due to flash cards and at the same time I've heard that it's all nonsense. What' do you ladies think?

It definitely helps. I started to send my girl to heguru then happy train. She started at 10mth old. I tot its waste of money but since everybody talks abt it, I just try till she was 20mths where we started CC n stopped. We were quite amazed with her learning n memory capabilities. During meet the parent session, teacher mentioned abt her ability to remember all the flash cards she shown n commented on her memory skills. I told her, we did classes for her, Mayb it's showing the result now. Till now, my gal rem things very very well n she's only 28mths o. We are thinking to put her back to class with her meimei. N between heguru, shinchida n happy train, they r all for training memory but slightly differs in style. Heguru is open concept where kids gets to roam around, happy train is class room settings.