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 ...

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 ...

Children are no longer being taught the traditionally 'efficient' way to calculate maths problems in primary schools, but the 'new' Abacus system has led parents and teachers to grumble about the ...

Bhubaneswar, Aug. 2: She may be just 10-years-old, but Rini can correctly add up 10-digit numbers in just a few seconds. Eight-year-old Nikhil can complete up to fifty math sums in five minutes flat.

Moments after a teacher posed questions to a group of Class I students of Chennai School, Saidapet, mathematically precise answers from all the young minds reverberated in scientific unison. The group ...

In a bid to help advance their ability in arithmetic, as many as 120 Chennai primary schools run by the Chennai Corporation will soon get the abacus method of teaching, benefitting 23,000 students, ...

Chennai: Abacus method of teaching arithmetic will be introduced in over 120 state-run primary schools here in a bid to help students advance their ability in the subject. The abacus method would be ...

Schoolkids should be taught using an old-fashioned abacus if the Government decides to scrap times-tables tests, specialists have said. According to reports, the Labour party could bin traditional ...