Assignment: Exploring the Abacus
The Abacus

Goals:
- Choose a specific type of abacus to research. There are many kinds, Wikipedia has a good list to start your research from.
- Write either a report as if you were going to publish it to Wikipedia or some other similar informational site or create an instructional video that includes the following things about the abacus of your choice:
- In what part of the world is/ was the abacus used?
- Is it still used, if not when did it fall out of use?
- What mathematical operations are/ were performed on it?
- Have the materials used to make them changed?
- Has the geographical location of their use changed or spread?
- Describe how to use the abacus to count, add, subtract, and any other mathematical operations that it is/ was used for.
- Appropriate references to the source(s) of your research.
- At least one image of the abacus.