The correct resources may make learning mathematics engaging and dynamic, and the abacus is one such resource that aids kids in developing their computation abilities. The ancient counting device ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese Zhusuan is a time-honoured traditional method of performing mathematical calculations with an abacus. By moving beads along rods, practitioners can perform addition, subtraction, ...

The abacus can be used to solve basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as well as more advanced operations such as square roots and logarithms. The ...

When I first heard my daughter was going to take abacus lessons after school, I didn’t really know what to make of it. I never touched one myself and just considered it one of those obsolete tools of ...

China's Zhusuan or the knowledge and practice of arithmetic calculation using an abacus, has been nominated by UNSECO for competition to be listed as World Intangible Cultural Heritage. The final ...

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 ...

If you have picked up an abacus from a thrift store and watched your toddler play with the beads, like I have, and wondered if that's all there is to it, read on. Using an abacus ("soroban"), that ...