Why the Abacus Is Important for Children

by Amombi Emmanuel Just Do It

Abacus & Mental Arithmetic is a little bit like an art and a little bit like science.

One of the things that I really care about is allowing people to access both elements of mathematics.

On the one hand, we've got this beautiful structure that can sometimes describe the world and sometimes describes something that we're thinking about that doesn't have a representation in the real world.

And on the other hand, we have this powerful set of tools that come from mathematics to describe things that we see, information that we process.

When children get access to that quantitative literacy, they become powerful kids.

·      They can change the way they think.

·      They can vote for things.

·      They can advocate for things.

·      They can make decisions about their own lives in ways that are informed by quantitative information.

So, if we don't have information available to us, we make poor decisions.

And it's why we as a society think it's really important that people know how to read.

For the same reason, we think it's really important that people have access to quantitative literacy so they can make informed decisions about anything involving quantitative information — our medical care, our finances.

That also includes decisions that we make as a society about our government and our health care and our tax system.

So, without quantitative literacy, we're driving in the dark.

With quantitative literacy, we are powerful advocates for ourselves and for the values that we believe in.

I think as part of that we also get a little access to the joy and the beauty of abacus and mental mathematics. 

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