Elementary school students who learn to calculate using a mental abacus tend to perform better on math tests than their peers ...

When I was a kid learning arithmetic the only visual aid I remember is flash cards. These were useful for memorizing single-digit addition and multiplication, but is memorization really the best ...

Check out this cool iPhone app from Japanese coder Kako-san. In many parts of Asia, the Abacus is still used today, mainly to teach maths, so Kako-san decided to make an abacus app for the iPhone.

For years, mathematics has been taught to many children as a subject of abstract numbers, formulas and procedures, something to be memorised and reproduced on paper. But the abacus is offering a ...