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[citation needed] If you read the article, it specifies that advanced soroban is taught in some private school, and that it was phased out in the 1970s. Curren

[citation needed] If you read the article, it specifies that advanced soroban is taught in some private school, and that it was phased out in the 1970s. Currently elementary students get a total of 4 hours of instruction spread over grade 3 and 4 (which is probably just enough that, a couple years later, they would still know what it is). So while the title is grammatically correct, it is also misleading.

mikekchar 7y ago
I'm very confused... I don't have access to the article because I don't want to make an account... But is it implying that soroban is not taught in schools? Because that is incorrect. It totally depends on the school, but the high school I taught in had an elective class in advanced soroban. Part of the class was passing a certain kentei level (I can't remember which one). We even had a soroban club and it was quite popular (about 25 people). In the countryside soroban are still used by some businesses so it is considered a reasonable skill to have. Anyway, the school I taught at was not an academic school, so most people didn't go to university. It had a business section for students intending to take over their parent's shop, etc. Most of the students in the business section took the soroban class (it might have even been all of them). In addition to soroban, they had classes in Excel and even SQL -- though no other programming language.
- mosselman 7y ago
  You don't have to make an account to access the article. If you have reached your max number of articles, try clearing all cookies or using a private window or a different browser. Firefox has 'containers' which have isolated cookies, you can open news sites like these in a separate container. If you want to take it 1 step further, you can install Firefox's 'Multi-Account Containers' add-on and tell it to open certain websites in a container by default. When you run into the limit, just clear the cookies of that container.
- SECProto 7y ago
  It said it's not part of the mandatory curriculum (except for two hours each to 小３•４)

mikekchar 7y ago

I'm very confused... I don't have access to the article because I don't want to make an account... But is it implying that soroban is not taught in schools? Because that is incorrect. It totally depends on the school, but the high school I taught in had an elective class in advanced soroban. Part of the class was passing a certain kentei level (I can't remember which one). We even had a soroban club and it was quite popular (about 25 people). In the countryside soroban are still used by some businesses so it is considered a reasonable skill to have. Anyway, the school I taught at was not an academic school, so most people didn't go to university. It had a business section for students intending to take over their parent's shop, etc. Most of the students in the business section took the soroban class (it might have even been all of them). In addition to soroban, they had classes in Excel and even SQL -- though no other programming language.

mosselman 7y ago
You don't have to make an account to access the article. If you have reached your max number of articles, try clearing all cookies or using a private window or a different browser. Firefox has 'containers' which have isolated cookies, you can open news sites like these in a separate container. If you want to take it 1 step further, you can install Firefox's 'Multi-Account Containers' add-on and tell it to open certain websites in a container by default. When you run into the limit, just clear the cookies of that container.
SECProto 7y ago
It said it's not part of the mandatory curriculum (except for two hours each to 小３•４)