KOCHI: While growing up, Nisha Pradeep loved attending abacus classes. And so it didn’t come as any surprise to her family when she decided to become an abacus teacher who would spend hours teaching ...

Parents in Japan who are having their children start early on learning the abacus hope that it will improve both calculation and concentration. A survey conducted by the abacus education organization ...

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 ...

Under fire for easing standards and creating a generation of educational slackers, some Japanese schools are finding a new use for a tool from the days of the samurai. The abacus is making a comeback.

Dr Rashmi Mantri elucidates on how training your children in the ancient tool helps them not just with mathematics but in day to day life too Children possess an amazingly innate ability to learn.

Find out what’s new on ST website and app. The abacus is an old-school counting tool but, for a long time, there were abacus classes for the young and hardly any for older folks. Several years ago, a ...