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 Abacus maths textbook, which has been causing ‘maths anxiety’ in children in government and private schools, will be discontinued after 2016, sources close to the Education Ministry said. Maltese ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learning mathematics has been tough for many students for long. But they find learning maths a fun now thanks to introduction of abacus method of teaching, says Ms N. Premalatha, Director, Excel ...

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 ...