How Are Numbers Taught in Asia Compared to Western Countries?
When it comes to early math education, learning basic numeracy and developing a sense of numbers, Asian children consistently outperform their peers in the West. Many have looked into the intricacies of early math education in countries like China, Japan, and Korea. Without getting too deep into the research, let’s look at a few simple contrasting
Generate the Famous Fibonacci Sequence on The Abacus!
This is a transcript of the video. In this video we are going to take a look at an interesting activity using our soroban to generate the famous Fibonacci Number Sequence. Any term in the sequence is generated by summing the two previous terms. To generate term #7 which is the number 13, you would
The Abacus – A Math Manipulative Students Will Use for Life
Teachers in schools around the world experiment with lots of different math manipulatives to help children visualize and conceptualize the meaning of numeric symbols and basic math operations. We use number dice, cards, tiles and boards, connecting rods and blocks, two color counters and ten frames, number lines, place value blocks, dominoes and shape counters.