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 ...

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 ...

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 ...