Also, I like the irony.)Īnyway, I’ll let you listen to it – it is a well-spent half hour – and urge you to get to the end about “flash anzan”, where numbers are flashed on a screen way faster than you can read them out, and added up with lightning speed by thousands of children at a time, in their heads, using abacus moves. ![]() I have not tried it, but since I borrowed the image from there I felt I should give them a plug. I also love that the abacus is so fundamentally old-fashioned – an antidote to our love of technology for its own sake, and the tendency to relegate the calculation to the calculator, as though it’s some nasty thing one shouldn’t trouble one’s brain with… (The image is from the iTunes site for an iPad app for a soroban, by Paul-Andre Panserrieu. I think it is great that (from the people they interviewed) there’s a sheer love of calculation and of numbers and that there’s none of the lamentable “I’m not good at this I’m a languages/sports/art person” attitude that is so common in our society and which is responsible for poisoning children’s education so early on. It is all mostly about how numbers and arithmetic are taught in Japan. And so fast!!! The radio program “Land of the Rising Sums” by Alex Bellos that I learned this from is here. For the first part, it is great (and charmingly bizarre) that there is a craze based around the abacus that has such a following (abacus or “soroban” championships), and for the second part… it is nothing short of remarkable when they get to the stage where they go “beyond the abacus”, and are just doing it in the head, but using abacus moves. /r/FrugalLearning - An affordable approach to learning.I was quite stunned by this. ![]() /r/LifeLongLearning - A place to share and learn about the wealth of free resources available on the internet to develop your mind, skills, and understanding in all subjects./r/RedditDayOf - Where everyday is a new topic for readers to research and post the best information they can find on the subject./r/LanguageLearning - Resources for those wanting to learn to speak/read a new language./r/LearnProgramming - Programming resources for new developers./r/Answers - Get answers to the questions about "everything you ever wanted to know about anything but were afraid to ask.".If you believe your post has been inappropriately flagged as spam, please message the moderators with a link to your post and we'll sort it out for you.Īlso, check out No Excuse List and The Zencyclopedia, created by members of our community for links to other great resources for learning new things! If you're looking for help with a personal issue, you may find better advice at the subreddits at the bottom of this sidebar.įrom time to time, reddit's spam filter might accidentally flag a legitimate post. Please keep them in the comments as replies to others looking for help. Submitting learning resources as their own posts is not allowed. For more straightforward/trivia type questions, check out our friends at /r/Answers! ![]() IWantToLearn is meant to help people who are looking for help starting a major project or learning a new skill. Tell our community what you want to learn, and let those who came before you help guide you towards success! Well, that's what /r/IWantToLearn is all about! Have you had difficulty figuring out where to start, what path to take or just wanted some advice to get you to the next level? Have you ever wanted to learn a martial art, or to play the guitar, or how to program a computer? Although repeat/duplicate requests are explicitly allowed or even encouraged, why not search our subreddit for previously given advice before making a post of your own?
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