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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The need for schools to adopt innovative methods of teaching mathematics in order to erase the phobia students have for it and thereby bolster the pass rate has been stressed. In fact, mathematics ...

In a note to teachers, the director of education has said Delhi government schools should teach mathematics using the abacus and by the Vedic mathematics method. Image used for representative purpose ...