Hefei Shilimiao Primary School students start mornings with a special regimen performed with abacuses. Provided to China Daily Related video: Education crisis: Kids find abacus a total alien object ...

The abacus, that ancient, no-batteries-required, bead-based calculator, is making a comeback in after-school programs across Canada. The schools, which are modelled after programs common across India ...

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Now that digital learning is the way of the future, children and students are increasingly using online abacus platforms to expand their skill sets. Some kids have a natural aptitude for math and ...

Schools in Japan are bringing the abacus back to class, it's reported. Some teachers have been reintroducing a version of the traditional counting tool - the soroban - to help young people think ...

UXBRIDGE — With nothing more than a pen and paper, 15-year-old Michael Hardock calculates four sets of two-digit multiplication questions in a matter of seconds. After finishing he looks up with a ...

More than 200 students at Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce have applied to take a course in how to use a Chinese abacus. Such lessons were once mandatory at the university, but they were phased ...

Beijing shop clerk Gao Shunxiang has been using an abacus at work for 28 years. He could end up being part of the last generation of abacus users in China. Cui Meng / China Daily The abacus faces ...

Schools in Japan are bringing the abacus back to class, it's reported. Some teachers have been reintroducing a version of the traditional counting tool - the soroban - to help young people think ...