I am also required to do addition, subtraction and multiplication on 2 large integers. I havent had much success in figuring out how to do arithmetic on something like that..

The result? The students who got the abacus instruction posted higher gains in their ability to calculate, do arithmetic, and understand place values than the control group.

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as ...