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, ...

“Ancient” may not be a term that piques students’ interest nowadays, but in any field of study, there is merit in looking back and understanding the foundation of things and concepts. Since ancient ...

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 ...

A teenager who once struggled with simple sums is now a maths whizz after using an ancient learning system. Dhruv Maheshwari, 16, was struggling at school when his mum started to tutor him using an ...

Ancient calculator to make a return as DfE pins maths catch up plan on abacus The Government is planning to buy abacuses for primary schools as part of Covid classroom drive to help children catch up ...

Gabriella Sheh loves attending her after-school maths class on Sydney's north shore. The 10-year-old enjoys it for one reason in particular — the abacus. "I think it's probably heaps better than a ...