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 ...

If you have picked up an abacus from a thrift store and watched your toddler play with the beads, like I have, and wondered if that's all there is to it, read on. Using an abacus ("soroban"), that ...

For this series, we've been thinking a lot about some of the iconic objects that some of us remember using — if only for a short period of time — in our early schooling. Slide rules, the recorder, ...

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 ...