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 ...

Japan is one of the most high tech nations in the world, yet even so a million Japanese children a year learn to calculate using a mechanical, pocket-sized contraption that has been around for ...

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 ...