We chose to build two abaci from different cultures in order to compare them: the Russian (Schoty) abacus and the Japanese (Soroban) abacus. The Russian abacus was made specifically for counting ...

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

A Japanese abacus (soroban) In the nineteenth and twentieth century, Asian government officials and scholars who visited the United States sometimes brought abaci as gifts. Some of these presents made ...

Nevertheless, the abacus is enjoying a resurgence with parents in the Reiwa Era that started in 2019. At the Takashima Soroban School in the Akabane district of Tokyo’s Kita Ward, students ...

Now, the question is: can this maths technique make anyone a prodigy? Flash Anzan is a super-fast mental maths technique ...