What Is Recall? Why It Matters for Your Child's Studies

Last updated: 29 September 2026

Recall is a word that you would have certainly heard a lot many times. Basically, it is an activity of remembering anything that has been learnt or experienced in the past. Let us understand why recall is important in a student’s life.

Recall is something that helps a child to write his answers in the examination. Unless a child can recall whatever he has studied in the classroom or at home, all of his efforts to study will be considered as void. That is the kind of importance of recall.

Not only for students writing the exam, but also in every activity that we do, recall has an essential and unavoidable role to play. Even in a simple act of identifying a person, you need to recall their faces.

Connection between Abacus and the ability to Recall

We all are aware about the well-known benefits of Abacus training in small children. One of its most prominent benefits is “the ability to recall”.

The Abacus classes of children support whole brain development and help them recollect larger information of whatever has been studied. The instrument through its ancient and unique techniques of deriving solutions helps in creating visual pictures in the child’s mind. These pictures help the child hold numbers in mind while calculating. The students, throughout the 10 levels of Abacus learning are taught to memorize and recall these visual images for solving the complex mathematical problems. With regular practice, this kind of “picture perfect” recall can become a habit.

Abacus training is often described as working both sides of the brain together, because the child moves the fingers, pictures the beads and calculates at the same time. What matters for recall is visual and spatial memory, the ability to remember and tell apart patterns, which is exactly what picturing the abacus beads exercises. For what studies suggest, see our overview of research on abacus learning.

In other words we can say that the Abacus students can build better visual memory as they capture images in the mind and recall them effectively. This becomes possible with regular practice of picturing the beads in the mind.

Where Your Child Uses Recall at School

Recall is not only for exam day; a child draws on it in almost every lesson. The table below shows where recall appears in a school day and one small habit that supports it at home. Recall also depends on steady attention, so our guide on how to improve your child’s attention span in 30 days without banning screens pairs well with this, and our post on boosting the memory of your child has more everyday ideas.

We at Mastermind Abacus strongly believe that a child’s memory gets better as he grows in its initial ages. This means that every child can learn to memorize and recall efficiently if it is taught so during its developmental stage.

Not only do our skilled trainers help the students improve their visual memory, but also they focus on the auditory memory. Therefore, the students who get trained with us are better placed to do well in all subjects including mathematics, by utilizing both auditory and visual memory.

Frequently Asked Questions About Recall

For giving your child a right direction to a successful academic career, enroll it for the Mastermind Abacus course. Also, add an excelling mental arithmetic skill in its forte.