An academy urges the Nigerian Federal Government to introduce Abacus in schools to boost mental maths skills, reduce fear of ...

In today's fast-paced world, parents are constantly looking for ways to give their children an edge, especially when it comes to developing strong mental abilities. Two popular methods, Abacus ...

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, ...

The Far East flies high when it comes to numeracy while the West flounders. Is the abacus the secret of their success?

Photo Caption: A Japanese abacus (soroban) held over an older style Chinese abacus (suan pan). Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. Can the old-fashioned one-room schoolhouse provide new lessons for ...

Discovery Primary School learner Amber Stellenberg proved herself to be a maths prodigy when she obtained second place in the level 10 Abacus Soroban National competition in Cape Town. The Abacus ...

When I was a kid learning arithmetic the only visual aid I remember is flash cards. These were useful for memorizing single-digit addition and multiplication, but is memorization really the best ...

Abacus is an ancient calculating tool that can be used for various mathematical calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or even for basic counting. The design of this tool ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It might look like a game or a kids' toy but those sliding beads actually have the power to solve some ...

The abacus is considered the oldest calculating device used by humans but in the 1940s, a Korean man invented an abacus-like counting method using fingers called jisanbeop or chisanbop, a term that ...