DIY Mental / physical abacus lessons

Early Learning Teaching Your Child Math
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All and KL

I know we had a thread a couple of weeks ago around the benefits of Abacus lessons for Math.

Unfortunately, in South Africa we do not have any abacus lessons in South Africa and so I was wondering if anyone knows of a book / online instructions on how I can do abacus lessons with my daughter (14 months old). Is she too young for mental abacus learning? Maybe we start with physical abacus lessons first.

Any tips or pointers?

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I would like to know as well,
There are lessons offer where I live, but my son is only 11months old and I don’t think they are going to enroll him lol…
Sarah , I don’t think its too young to teach your baby the concept of Abacus, since its almost like learning the dots (from 1-10).

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My baby is 17 months old and I want to teach him how to use abacus. I did a little research on internet and I found that website:

http://www.nurtureminds.com/Year-1-textbook.htm (they use soroban abacus)

I bought that program with abacus. I should have it in few days. But I can’t tell you no more about it until I will practice. I plan to start teaching my baby at 2. He has great motor skill (I started pre-writing activities long time ago). At this point I started to show him abacus flashcards on BK.

My baby knows how to count to 20. I’ve read a lot about kids 3 or 4 years old who can’t understand the context of number 5 in one bead (on abacus). Maybe when we start early it will not be an issue (this is just my thought).

These are some other links I found interesting about Soroban and how you can test your baby later on (second link).

http://www.soroban.com/whats_soroban_eng.html
http://ssbrain.com/english/index.html

http://webhome.idirect.com/~totton/soroban/THE%20ABACUS%20HANDBOOK.pdf I found that very informative too.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~totton/abacus/pages.htm#Soroban1 This is very long free description in pdf.
http://sorobanabacus.com/ You can sign up for free basic lessons on internet, very short, great for babies

I hope that will help :slight_smile:

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Thanks so much martusia,
Those websites are very helpful!!
Please keep us updated on the abacus package you have purchased and give us your review!

karma to you.

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Wow that looks great. We are doing Math U See Primer and it’s too easy. Maybe we will do this when we finish the primer book. 1/4 there is 3 weeks lol. Keep us posted on how you and your little one like it!!