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 ...

What's the News: Most of us need everyone to stop talking when we perform mental math. But for children trained to do math visually with a "mental abacus," verbal disturbances roll off their backs, ...

Elementary school students who learn to calculate using a mental abacus tend to perform better on math tests than their peers. A recent study published in Learning and Individual Differences suggests ...