Introducing the culture of bead counting into elementary school, do you think it is necessary?

I think it is still necessary, or at an earlier time to learn, bead counting is the great creation of the ancient working people of our country, and the culture of bead counting is also an important element of the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Recently, whether it is necessary to further increase the requirements for primary school students to learn the bead counting is again controversial.

In fact, the inclusion of bead calculations in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools is not a new topic. As early as 2013, China's bead counting was included in UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity, and at that time there were experts who proposed to bring bead counting back to elementary school textbooks. So is it necessary for primary school students to learn abacus or not? Though the skill of the abacus has been eliminated nowadays, bead counting can develop children's intelligence. Bead counting is derived from bead counting and has more prospects for development. The education of bead counting is not simply a way to pass on intangible cultural heritage, but it also improves children's concentration, imagination, and spatial thinking skills.

While some people may worry that the education of bead counting is another kind of knowledge, and the math education under the current education system is not able to connect very well, on the most basic, its system is completely different from our decimal system. And China's ancient mathematics has its own uniqueness, the bead counting education and other knowledge education has a clear difference, but also will change the structure of the brain and thinking mode, in fact, the bead counting education should be as early as possible, that is, in the children's brain development has not been completely stereotyped, if through the bead counting training, it will make the brain space change.

And the teaching of traditional culture should also pay attention to the principle of teaching according to the talent. Not all children are suitable for learning bead counting, first of all, students should be interested in good, and then bead counting is a huge system, there are a lot of content, so how to carefully select the right content is also need to consider, consider the problem. And in the process of teaching, and our modern information technology to combine, so that the teaching is more realistic.