burlie
Practicing Anzan
with calculators nowadays, people get lazy using thier brains. My lil sister and a couple of my freinds had the fortunate opportunity to learn the abacus or Soroban. I, on the other hand did not want to learn this, but now regret not learning it. The skills of counting big numbers--adding, subtracting, dividing, and mulitiplying whole and decimal numbers with this instrument can easily be converted into mental calculations aka anzan. Those who know how to use the soroban can then visulaize the beads and calculate in thier heads. I had dinner once w/ a buddy of mine who learned this as a child and she quickly and easily calculated our dinner bill in a matter of seconds using anzan (mental calculation)
Practicing Anzan
with calculators nowadays, people get lazy using thier brains. My lil sister and a couple of my freinds had the fortunate opportunity to learn the abacus or Soroban. I, on the other hand did not want to learn this, but now regret not learning it. The skills of counting big numbers--adding, subtracting, dividing, and mulitiplying whole and decimal numbers with this instrument can easily be converted into mental calculations aka anzan. Those who know how to use the soroban can then visulaize the beads and calculate in thier heads. I had dinner once w/ a buddy of mine who learned this as a child and she quickly and easily calculated our dinner bill in a matter of seconds using anzan (mental calculation)