This page contains resources to help you teach your child the Abacus / Soroban. If you do not have a real Abacus / Soroban to work on try learning on the several online versions.

Email me at kalyani@kalyanis.com if you wish to get a real abacus and would like help.

The sessions and the worksheets within the sessions are sequentially arranged. So tackle them in the given sequence.

Session 1

LearnAbacusPractice1PPT.ppt: This is a powerpoint presentation to practice reading numbers on the Abacus.

Here are worksheets to use with this session:

AbacusWS1a.pdf: Practice reading numbers on the Abacus

AbacusWS1b.pdf: Practice making numbers on the Abacus

AbacusWS1c.pdf: Simple 2 step operations on the Abacus

AbacusWS1d.pdf: Simple 3 step operations on the Abacus

Session 2

This session focuses on the skill of adding and subtracting (with increasing level of complexity) - with numbers from 0-9.

Here are worksheets to use with this session:

AbacusWS2a.pdf: Computations involving the sky bead (5)

AbacusWS2b.pdf: Computations involving the sky bead at the start, end, and at the middle

AbacusWS2c.pdf: 3 step operations involving the sky bead (5)

AbacusWS2d.pdf: Addition of numbers 0-9 and subtraction of numbers 0-5

AbacusWS2e.pdf: Subtraction using numbers 5-9

AbacusWS2f.pdf: Addition and subtraction involving numbers 5-9