The Abacus Club reports the results of a pilot study carried out over a period of 10 weeks, looking at the benefits of using the Japanese abacus as part of an intervention programme on a small group of underperforming Year 1 children in a UK school. The study investigates the rate of progress of children who have participated in the abacus sessions against a control group. We used standardised tests at pre- and post-intervention stages which examine a number of features of the children’s performance, including computational skills, oral counting,SEE DETAILS
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