A soroban “allows students to see and manipulate a physical representation of abstract numbers,” according to The Japan ...

Aaryan Shukla's mental maths skills stunned one and all, including Anand Mahindra. Can the technique turn your child into a ...

Many cultures used abaci or something similar (such as the Inca quipu). We chose to build two abaci from different cultures in order to compare them: the Russian (Schoty) abacus and the Japanese ...

Parents in Japan often try to give their offspring a leg up by ensuring they learn early on how to use the abacus. While the sound of sliding beads making clacking sounds on a small wooden frame ...

For example, let's say you're going on a road trip with a friend and you want to pitch in for gas. 03:58 You might hand them some cash and say, "Gasorin-dai no tashi ni shite." (Let me pitch in ...

The centuries-old abacus, once a common tool in many countries, has now been abandoned around the world. But in Japan, thousands of students are still taught proficiency on the abacus. Advocates ...

Examples of counters made in Germany in the seventeenth century are in the Smithsonian’s National Numismatics Collections. A Japanese abacus (soroban) In the nineteenth and twentieth century, Asian ...