“Abacus"

By:Group 2
What we'll discuss

•The Origin of the Mathematical Instrument

•The use of the Mathematical Instrument in

their era

•Its Contributions till this era

Who Invented the Abacus?
•The Abacus is Invented by the Ancient
Mesopotamians of Sumeria
• The Sumerian abacus appeared between
2700–2300 BC. It held a table of
successive columns which delimited the
successive orders of magnitude of their Ettore Carruccio an Italian
mathematician (1908-1980)
sexagesimal (base 60) number system.
Some scholars point to a character in
Babylonian cuneiform that may have been
derived from a representation of the
abacus, It is the belief of Old Babylonian
scholars, such as Ettore Carruccio, that
Old Babylonians "seem to have used the
abacus for the operations of addition and
The Sumerians were the people
subtraction; however, this primitive
of southern Mesopotamia whose
device proved difficult to use for more civilization flourished between c.
complex calculations". 4100-1750 BCE
What is Abacus?
• The abacus, also called a
counting frame, is a
calculating tool which has
been used since ancient
times. It was used in the
ancient Near East, Europe,
China, and Russia, centuries Ancient abacus
before the adoption of the
Hindu-Arabic numeral system.
The exact origin of the abacus
has not yet emerged.
The use
What is the use of the
Abacus in their era?
•The abacus is one of many
counting devices invented in
ancient times to help count large
numbers, but it is believed that
the abacus was first used by the
Babylonians as early as 2,400
B.C.1 The abacus was in use in
Europe, China, and Russia,
centuries before the adoption of
the written Hindu-Arabic numeral
system.
How to use it in the field
of mathematics?
*Example problem
Treat all the beads as if each
were worth one. So, to teach
simple addition problems, like
"4+3=?", you would move
four beads over to the left
(Fig. 1). Then, place a finger
after those four beads and
add three more (Fig. 2).
Remove your finger and have
your child add the quantities
by pushing the beads together
and counting (Fig. 3).
The contributions
Contributions
The Abacus help us to
understand mathematical
equation because it serve as an
calculator in the Ancient era.
Also the abacus has
contribution to the
development of computer.
How?
The abacus, which emerged about 5,000 years ago in Asia Minor and is
still in use today, may be considered the first computer. The binary
Abacus is used to explain how computers manipulate numbers. The
abacus shows how numbers, letters, and signs can be stored in a binary
system on a computer, or via ASCII. The device consists of a series of
beads on parallel wires arranged in three separate rows.