Chinese Zhusuan is a time-honoured traditional method of performing mathematical calculations with an abacus. Practitioners can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponential ...

As kids get better at using the abacus, they become more confident in their math skills and less afraid of math.

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 ...

When I was a kid learning arithmetic the only visual aid I remember is flash cards. These were useful for memorizing single-digit addition and multiplication, but is memorization really the best ...

Event brought together over 6,000 students from 11 countries, all tasked with solving 300 advanced mathematical problems within just 11 minutes Once perceived as intimidating and tough, mathematics ...

1946: The United States Army holds a contest pitting a Japanese abacus user against a soldier using an electric calculator. In four out of five rounds, the abacus wins. The soroban or Japanese abacus ...

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 ...

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, ...