A soroban “allows students to see and manipulate a physical representation of abstract numbers,” according to The Japan Society website. Japanese third- and fourth-graders are required to practice ...

March 14 — a day you’re more likely than most others to eat — or throw — a pie and get a reduced price on your pizza. It’s ...

Math fanatics from all around the world and everyone else who just loves ancient Greek pi (or pie) celebrate on March 14.

The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford possesses about two dozen cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon that students used instead of paper to solve their math problems. Upon closer ...

As Eleanor Robson, a specialist in ancient mathematics from Cambridge University explains: "Everyone who's writing mathematics is doing it because they're learning how to be a literate ...

"Ancient Chinese mathematics is a treasure trove, concise in language yet profound in meaning. Many more insights await discovery," Zhou told Science and Technology Daily on Sunday. Do you have ...

Simply put, pi is a mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It figures into numerous formulas used in physics, astronomy, engineering and other ...