Fun With Counting – Abacus, Your Child’s Best Friend
As a parent you would always be on the lookout for learning aids for your little kid, which are not only interesting but also makes learning easy and fun. One such device is the abacus. Abacus is one of the earliest tools used for calculations centuries ago, and adopted even before the modern numeral system came into existence. From time immemorial abacus has been in existence and continues to be there due its simplistic feature but handy in performing basic arithmetic operations. Today, although there has been a decrease in the use of abacus as a teaching aid, it still continues to be a popular method or rather a fun method used by educational institutions to introduce pre-schoolers and small kids to numbers and basic arithmetic concepts. Need for Abacus in Modern Times In this digital age, there could be a section of forward-looking people who assume that digital devices like laptops, tabs, desktops etc., could be well leveraged to introduce arithmetic concepts to small ch...