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Hefei Shilimiao Primary School students start mornings with a special regimen performed with abacuses. Provided to China Daily Related video: Education crisis: Kids find abacus a total alien object ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Chinese Zhusuan refers to the knowledge and practice of performing arithmetic calculations using an abacus. It was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2013, becoming ...

Now that digital learning is the way of the future, children and students are increasingly using online abacus platforms to expand their skill sets. Some kids have a natural aptitude for math and ...

Schools in Japan are bringing the abacus back to class, it's reported. Some teachers have been reintroducing a version of the traditional counting tool - the soroban - to help young people think ...

UXBRIDGE — With nothing more than a pen and paper, 15-year-old Michael Hardock calculates four sets of two-digit multiplication questions in a matter of seconds. After finishing he looks up with a ...

More than 200 students at Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce have applied to take a course in how to use a Chinese abacus. Such lessons were once mandatory at the university, but they were phased ...

The world is recalculating the abacus' added historical and contemporary value since the device was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List last month. Xu Lin reports. New interest in the ancient ...