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Features
- Size: 58 x 19 cm
Ideal for a classroom setting, easily hung on the wall with its friction system on the beads for vertical use.
Why choose a Japanese abacus?
From age 6 onward, Abacus Universe and its team consider the Japanese abacus to be the most appropriate form of abacus for serious educational use.
It is perfectly suited for performing both basic and more complex calculations. It will support your child’s learning well beyond elementary school, as it is easy to use for more advanced operations employing the same principles.
Originating in the 17th century from the Chinese abacus, the soroban is today the most widely used type of abacus in education. (And for good reason!)
For your child, the abacus will become an authentic key to success.
Why use an abacus?
Mathematics is an abstract subject; numerous studies have confirmed that children under 10 often struggle to grasp abstract concepts like those in math.
These difficulties can lead to problems ranging from simply disliking arithmetic in minor cases to loss of self-confidence or even academic failure, even among bright students.
Using an abacus helps your child visualize numbers and develop mental models that will support them throughout their schooling and beyond in life.
The abacus: an ancient tool still valuable today.
Children who learn using the abacus generally achieve higher IQ scores than their peers, even surpassing children taught with the most advanced educational methodologies.
The abacus helps your children go beyond just math.
Using the abacus enhances children’s memory in two ways. First, students no longer need to memorize arithmetic answers. Once the child understands how the abacus works, they will know how to solve any arithmetic problem without memorizing specific solutions or calculation steps since the process remains consistent.
The second way the abacus reduces stress on memory is by allowing students to clearly see how they arrived at the result. By incorporating how calculations and numbers work, they can understand other exercises more deeply. When a student can solve a problem, they no longer need to rely on short-term memory to retain answers.
Students tend to memorize problems without learning strategies to solve them, resulting in rote learning without true understanding, which is often hard to detect.
This issue is easily addressed by using an abacus, which fosters intuitive and effective comprehension of mathematics.
From preschool through higher education, the abacus offers definite benefits for every child who uses it.
