What's the News: Most of us need everyone to stop talking when we perform mental math. But for children trained to do math visually with a "mental abacus," verbal disturbances roll off their backs, ...

Lagos — There is the need for both the Federal and state governments to encourage the adoption of abacus mental calculation in Nigerian schools if the country is to successfully develop high ...

TOKYO -- An app developed in Japan for people to learn the abacus-method of math calculation skills is gaining global popularity, with more than 8,000 students at home and abroad using the app to ...

Gabriella Sheh loves attending her after-school maths class on Sydney's north shore. The 10-year-old enjoys it for one reason in particular — the abacus. "I think it's probably heaps better than a ...

A teenager who once struggled with simple sums is now a maths whizz after using an ancient learning system. Dhruv Maheshwari, 16, was struggling at school when his mum started to tutor him using an ...

FORT LEE — For 10 seconds, a series of 50 random three-digit numbers flashed on the screen. After another second, abacus master Jeonghee Lee announced she'd finished the mental addition, correctly ...

Class VI student Srijoni Das of Loreto Convent, Entally, was weak in maths. She feared the subject and hence her school performance was getting affected. Everything changed when she started learning ...

They warn that while abacuses may look simple, the beaded counting tools are not easy to use properly and teachers would need proper training. If not, the devices could just gather dust on shelves, or ...

It is often said that the reason Alfred Nobel did not endow one of his prizes in mathematics was because his wife was having an affair with a mathematician. While this story has been debunked it is ...

Sometimes, old fashioned things are better. I understand the arguments of those who prefer taking pen and paper notes to typing for example, or even people who prefer analog, vinyl recordings to ...