| Shanis |
06-23-2009 07:10 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nyororin
(Post 737559)
I don`t really think so. Some of these people are incredibly fast. And I mean fast - on par with calculator fast.
Once they have the skill, it apparently helps a lot with calculating in your head. You`ll see people doing math while moving their fingers like while they use an abacus - and coming up with an accurate answer very quickly. I believe it links the visual of the abacus to the abstract of the numbers in a way that makes math easier for more "visual" people.
Better than just typing in numbers on a calculator, in my opinion.
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Using abacus may helps you calculating faster, but it takes a lot of time learning it, but I would like to know how correct the answers of those kids are, cause speed isn't everything^^ And btw. I never learned to use abacus, to be true, i even never saw them in real just on tv (except this one time in elementary school when the teachers told us how they had to learn calculating... i never had to use them either I did everything in my mind or used a calculator^^) |
