We were disappointed to read Professor Josef Lauri’s recent comments about the Malta edition of Abacus (‘Means of maths destruction?’, April 29). This view is not reflective of the hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A kid who was struggling at school is now a maths genius after his mum taught him to use an ABACUS - which she says can help today ...

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 ...

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 ...

To mark World Numeracy Day, the mathematics expert and former co-host of Countdown spoke to The One Show presenters Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas to discuss the potential reasons for UK adults ...

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 ...