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Features
- Size: 58 x 19 cm
- Can be wall-mounted.
Ideal for classroom use: vertical positioning is easy thanks to its friction system that prevents beads from falling by simple gravity.
Why choose a soroban?
From age 6, we have found that the Japanese abacus, or soroban, is the best-suited type of abacus for serious educational use.
It is designed to perform both simple and complex calculations. As a result, it will support your child’s learning well beyond primary school. In fact, it can be used for advanced calculations by applying the same principles.
Developed in the 17th century based on the Chinese abacus, the soroban is today the most widely used form in education. (And for good reason!)
For your child, the abacus becomes a key factor for academic success.
Why use an abacus?
Mathematics is an abstract concept; science has shown that students under 9 years old struggle to visualize conceptual elements similar to arithmetic.
These difficulties can lead to various problems, from simple aversion to arithmetic to loss of self-confidence and even academic failure, including among bright students.
Working with an abacus helps your child visualize numbers and build mental frameworks that will support them throughout their education and beyond, throughout life.
The abacus: an ancient tool still valuable today.
Children who use the abacus during their education generally achieve significantly higher scores in IQ tests compared to their peers—including those learning through the most modern and even experimental methods.
The abacus supports your child beyond mathematics.
Using the abacus aids students’ memory in two ways. First, the student no longer needs to memorize arithmetic answers. Once the student understands how the abacus works, they will know how to solve any math problem. They won’t have to memorize solutions or calculation steps, as the method is always the same. Second, the abacus helps memory by enabling students to clearly see how they arrived at the result. By understanding how problems and numbers work, they can grasp how various problems function. Once a student can solve a problem, they no longer need to keep solutions in short-term memory.
Children tend to memorize problems rather than develop methods to solve them, leading to rote learning without real understanding, which is often unnoticed.
This bad habit is easily corrected with the abacus, which promotes intuitive understanding of mathematics.
From kindergarten through high school, the abacus is a reliable tool for students who use it.
