CEAS has the tools you need to add East Asia to your lessons.
CEAS is constantly adding to its lending library of printed media, multimedia, vernacular items, traditional items, teaching tools, costumes, and toys from East Asia. These materials are available free of charge to educators who can pick them up in person.
Item in focus - そろばん Japanese soroban abacus
Learn math the East Asian way! Students across East Asia practice a form of the abacus at school or in after-school lessons. You can provide the same experience to your students using this class set of 40 soroban. Using the beads to count ones and fives provides a scaffold to mental arithmetic while introducing your students to a new perspective on how they view doing math.
Booking Instructions
As we are currently building and expanding our lending library, it is best to contact CEAS and inform us of the type of materials you are interested in. Then, we can either lend you our current items or source them for you. Please make sure to include the following information.
Email: eas-center@arizona.edu
Phone: 520-621-0777
- School, organization, institution name
- Preferred date
- Preferred time
- Contact person
- Student grade
- Class size
- Duration
- Topic or theme
- Focus area in East Asia (e.g., China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan)
Note: Lending Library items are subject to availability.