KARACHI: Children lined the stage, making fists like they were ready for a fight. With goofy smiles on their faces, they looked on to their parents in the audience as the teacher read a series of ...

Put away the laptop, the calculator and the adding machine – and try filing your taxes using an abacus. That’s right, an abacus. We haven’t always been as high-tech as we are today. Before there was ...

As kids get better at using the abacus, they become more confident in their math skills and less afraid of math.

Children sat on the floor, curiously, facing a large abacus with yellow beads. When asked ‘do you find maths easy?, the reply was a faint yes. The question was repeated and this time, there was pin ...