I recently visited two large bookstores in Tokyo, Japan, to cover the local math culture, and I couldn't help but be amazed. While bookstores in Korea have at most two or three shelves for math books, ...

HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back to Defense Department students gathered Thursday to learn about the Japanese abacus, or soroban, at the Tsukazan Community Center ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last month, a national cry of alarm greeted the announcement by the Organization for ...

Japanese students remain among the top in the world according to the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, which surveyed youth from 65 countries and regions. The science and ...

TOKYO -- An app developed in Japan for people to learn the abacus-method of math calculation skills is gaining global popularity, with more than 8,000 students at home and abroad using the app to ...

The Edo-period pursuit of wasan, Japan’s domestic tradition of tackling mathematical problems, was one involving samurai and commoners, young and old alike. Historical records reveal that women and ...

Kyoto University of Education Professor Yasufumi Kuroda shows a website with Ukrainian math video content in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward on April 27, 2022. (Mainichi/Norikazu Chiba) An educational math video ...

During the Edo period (1603–1868), as Japan walked a path distinct from most of the rest of the world, it forged an adventurous new path in mathematical teaching and thinking. The wasan tradition, ...