focus on repetition and mastery of skills. (Record photo by Beverly Shilling Math for Carly Harmon is as everyday as washing her face, as rote as tying her tennis shoe. She flies through her math ...

Japanese kids learn to multiply with a completely different method than the one kids in the US do. The Japanese math voodoo/magic is more of a visual technique where you draw lines and count the ...

Truthfully, David Glefke, 8, of Prospect Heights would rather be out in-line skating than sitting in a church basement twice a week, doing math drills. “I don’t like math at school,” David said, after ...

TOKYO -- An app developed in Japan for people to learn the abacus-method of math calculation skills is gaining global popularity, with more than 8,000 students at home and abroad using the app to ...

When I first saw this Japanese multiplication method, I just couldn’t believe it. Then I tried it and it works perfectly, but still can’t understand how it works—or how anyone found this method. You ...