I think Chinese do...
to count
Yes.
An abacus is an ancient Chinese calculator that is still in use today.
yes but not many people use it
The Abacus.
Yes abacus still in used today, specially for visual impaired students. Eventhough the talking calculator did help for visual impaired students at Braille schools across the nation, but talking calculator do not let students understand the important of number placement value. I enclosed some websites talk about the benefits of using abacus in Braille schools: http://www.hadley-school.org/resources_list_detail.asp?resource=abacus http://www.hadley-school.org/resources_list_detail.asp?resource=abacus
There was evidence of the abacus going back as early as 2700 B.C. And it is still commonly used in certain countries and places like Japan, China, Russia, and the Middle East.
Before electronics were invented, Mathematicians used abacus's.
the abacus as we know today appeared circa 1200 A.D. in
The difference is that an abacus uses beads to calculate. A calculater uses solar energy or batteries to make its digital numbers. In other words an abacus uses beads and a calculater uses buttons you press to put numbers on the calculaters screen.
The Abacus.
The Abacus.
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