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Montessori Wooden Mini Abacus
- Size: 24 x 22 x 7.5 cm
- Made from solid beech wood / metal rods
- Official Montessori design
The popular school abacus is the easiest model to learn for young children.
This abacus offers a simple and effective introduction to the world of mathematics.
With high-quality wooden craftsmanship, it is both durable and environmentally friendly.
Warm, original colors achieved with non-toxic paint and varnish.
A robust design built to withstand children’s handling.
For your child, this abacus will be the perfect tool for success.
Why choose an abacus?
Arithmetic is an abstract concept; numerous serious studies have shown that children under 9 years old often struggle to visualize abstract concepts such as mathematics.
These difficulties can lead to many issues, ranging from giving up on arithmetic under less severe conditions, to loss of self-confidence and even academic failure, even among the most intelligent students.
Using an abacus will require your child to visualize numbers and build mental structures that will help them throughout their school years and beyond in life.
The abacus: an ancient tool still useful today.
Children who use the abacus during their learning consistently achieve significantly higher IQ test scores than their peers, outperforming even children taught with the most modern and experimental educational theories.
The abacus benefits children beyond mathematics.
Using an abacus enhances students’ memory skills in two ways. First, the child no longer needs to remember the answers to arithmetic problems. Next, once the student has mastered the abacus operation, they will understand how to solve any calculation problem. They no longer need to learn solutions or calculation steps, as it is always the same process. The second way the abacus aids memory is that students can clearly see how they arrived at the answers. By understanding how problems and numbers work, they can visualize new problems’ workings. Once a student can solve a problem, they no longer need to memorize solutions in short-term memory.
Students tend to memorize problems rather than apply methods to solve them, leading to rote learning without deep understanding, which is often not obvious.
This bad habit is easily corrected by calculating with an abacus; the abacus promotes an intuitive understanding of mathematics.
From elementary school through high school, the abacus provides a clear advantage to the student who uses it.
