Wasan mathematicians continued to play important roles in elementary education during the Meiji period, and what is taught as tsurukamezan (solving a system of linear equations) for arithmetic classes today is said to be a vestige of wasan from earlier times.
明治の初等教育でも和算家は活躍しつづけ、現在の算数の鶴亀算などはその名残りだという。