The students are taught how to use “an imaginary abacus”, Altaf said, adding that they can perform all the calculations they need to by moving beads on an abacus in their imagination and do ...

Then they use it for simple counting exercises, before moving on to addition and subtraction. "It gives children a visual understanding of how to perform these operations," Singh says.

Put away the laptop, the calculator and the adding machine - and try filing your taxes using an abacus. That's right, an abacus.

Columnist Linda Lewis Griffith learned to use an abacus as a Big Pointless Goal that was both fun and good for her brain.

Enhances Arithmetic Skills Using an abacus helps kids do basic math like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division faster and better.

On Sunday morning, an abacus workshop was organised by ‘Math 2 Merit’, at T.V.S. Rao Srikrishna Vidya Mandir for the children in the age group of seven to fifteen, as part of the two-day The ...

The abacus is gaining traction in Australia as parents seek to boost their children's maths performance with after-school classes.