Soroban/Mental math exam. Visualizing an Abacus.

[stevenstreets3]

Fractional reserve banking industry in America dosnt want you to know math or you might get wise to the fraud of fiat specie. "Keep em dumb and in debt for paper" is the industry motto. Americas bankers monetary monopoly will never allow a well educated public without life crippling debt.

[00Maximilian]

Sounds like someone's been watching too many zeitgeist-type movies.

[ZombieJesusBrainz]

This is awesome! As someone at university, its like why weren't we taught this!... for starters its actually faster than a calculator... takes as long to learn... and in the end you can just throw it out and "imagine" the abacus as we see it here. Far superior to calculators... imagine all those square roots and multi variable algerbra for calculus would be almost entirely mental!

[snylekkie]

Well no. Abacus can't find 6-th grade roots or crazy tangents and integrations.

It's just multiplying at blinding speed.

[lkooe]

Maybe some schools are actually unaware of the abacus perhaps some teachers no of it and our teachers should at things like meetings should talk about it as an idea.

[damandatwin]

@ZombieJesusBrainz Because it's useless. It doesn't matter how fast you can do mental calculations. In the real world people use computers for these types of mundane calculations, and they are always going to be faster.

[lemonzstar93]

why tape this..i don't see the point of taking this video..i think abacus just makes things easier.Like for pre-schoolers, with abacus, they can count faster and improve their memory. what's so bad about that? it's just efficient.

[k1mcp]

It's not a form of elitism, it's a different approach to maths. What that kid is doing when moving fingers is in fact mentally moving beads on a soroban (or abacus)... it's mental maths using the right side of the brain. That's what's amazing about it.

[lambutan82]

Yes amazing, but its a skill that everyone should have a choice to or not to develop. To place it into some examination such that one person becomes prioritised over another is elitism. And i must reiterate that self-proclaimed judges have personal agendas to elevate themselves socially.

[enigma067]

Sounds like you're trying to discourage learning and wish everybody to remain ignorant.

[Dataryder]

Following your logic, why excel anything at all?

[lambutan82]

Yes! "why excel" must be the fundamental question for everyone out there. "Cui Bono!" - Who stands to benefit from the labours of the children? Who stands to benefit when people compete among themselves under an authority? There is a fine line between good personal ethics and an induced ideology with hidden agendas.

[lambutan82]

Yea, but whats the point? It becomes a form of elitism and social segregation which results in a divided society selfish for an advantage over another and jealous to have all for himself. This is not what the children wants, but what the parents want. And feed the legitimacy of the self-proclaimed judges of this event who ultimately himself wishes to have some higher authority.

[synthetica2006]

society is partly driven and based on and was built bcus of people's 'selfish' desires to be better than others, to achieve things. and unfortunately that IS what children want, to be acknowledged by people, whether becus of having a skill like this or some other quality.

[lambutan82]

Can you see the 'dryness' of the examination with relations to society? It is like the italians having a Pasta-making contest in 30 secs for children just because pasta is a cultural heritage to them. So what if a child can add a million numbers in his head? It doesnt help the people around him at all. It cheats of the human spirit and will cause the chinese people to remain divided, selfish and covertly competitive.

[lambutan82]

Not everything out there that claims excellence is good. Id rather have a jaded child, than one who excels in this and thinks he deserves all. Even though he doesnt have that snob attitude, still, this is wasted energy and in overall has negative impact on society.

[ZombieJesusBrainz]

kids do deserve all, society fucks them up.... without exception.

[itsanthonyhere]

Or it just makes their brain 50 times more powerful than yours...

[fmicheviz]

freaking awesome