The brain is made up of two hemispheres, the left and the right. The left brain is responsible for functions such as logic, analysis and computation. The right brain deals more with areas such as creativity, imagination and intuition.
The regular curriculum is not designed to enhance and stimulate the activity of both sides of the brain equally. In essence, our education system, and science in general, tends to neglect the right hemisphere. UCMAS aims to make up for this limitation by stimulating the right brain with the help of mental arithmetic.
