Calculators are awesome, but they’re not always handy. More to the point, no one wants to be seen reaching for the calculator on their mobile phone when it’s time to figure out a 15 percent gratuity.

May 21 (UPI) --An 11-year-old Florida girl earned a Guinness World Record for mental math when she solved a 12-digit multiplication problem without a calculator, pen or paper. Sanaa Hiremath, who was ...

Ever dreamt of solving math problems in your head with the speed of a calculator? Mental math might seem challenging, but it's a skill attainable through the right tools and techniques. The abacus, an ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

There's a new Guinness World Record holder for how fast someone can do math. Aaryan Shukla — who has been dubbed "the human calculator" can solve complex problems in his head in seconds. OK, Ari, what ...

FORT LEE — For 10 seconds, a series of 50 random three-digit numbers flashed on the screen. After another second, abacus master Jeonghee Lee announced she'd finished the mental addition, correctly ...

Video: Age is just a number when it comes to brushing up on arithmetic skills Dubai: The question had hardly been put to a group of university students asked to come up with the sum of 69 and 48 using ...