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.

A learning center is teaching kids, aged three to 13 years old, how to learn and better appreciate math with the use of an abacus, a manual computing device, that helps them keep track of numbers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vinaya Kulkarni said she believes she has the program that will help grade-school age children gain confidence and competence in arithmetic. Kulkarni is the founder and head teacher of Abacus West, ...

In a bid to make it more fun and engaging, children in government schools are being introduced to Abacus-based mathematics as a part of their co-curricular activities. “As a co-curricular activity, we ...

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, ...

Sum talent: Contestants at the All Japan Soroban Championship 2012 As I mentioned in a previous post, a million Japanese children every year learn the abacus, which they call soroban. The high point ...

Many students struggle with mathematics but for some, it is a challenge they enjoy. Read full story ...