Publish at March 22 2023 Updated March 22 2023
Abacus, a universal tool but not taught in our schools. Today, the people who prepare school programs choose segments of knowledge to be taught according to a single method in most cases. But is this reasonable in the face of the plurality of students? Wouldn't it be richer to collect the different methods and make them available to teachers as a universal dictionary of teaching?
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