The 4,000 year old abacus might be ancient technology, but it can serve as a teaching tool for modern students. When operating the device, one learns decomposition — a way to think about pairs of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Board-games publisher Abacus sits above a coffee bar in a squat office building in the grey Frankfurt suburb of ...

NEW DELHI: Sleepless nights spent ahead of a maths test at school may soon be a thing of the past. In the age of palmtops, the good old abacus is making a modest comeback. NEW DELHI: Sleepless nights ...

Kent Rathbun still knows how to throw one hell of a party. It was a Tuesday night, and yet his nearly 14-year-old Abacus—the white tablecloth centerpiece of the celebrity chef’s restaurant empire— was ...

UXBRIDGE — The age-old abacus method of math training has proven to be a great tool for a host of Uxbridge area students. So much so that nine students from Abacus Brain Study in Uxbridge found ...

When 11-year-old Priyanshi Somani multiplies strings of 10-digit numbers or finds the square root of a six-digit number, she doesn’t use a calculator or even pencil and paper. Instead, like other ...