Photo Caption: A Japanese abacus (soroban) held over an older style Chinese abacus (suan pan). Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. Can the old-fashioned one-room schoolhouse provide new lessons for ...
If you have picked up an abacus from a thrift store and watched your toddler play with the beads, like I have, and wondered if that's all there is to it, read on. Using an abacus ("soroban"), that ...