Great hands-on tool to represent numbers without the use of place value!
#8-366W
Grades: K-2
$19.95
This 8 1/4" x 7 1/2" abacus can be used in an upright position or turned over and used on a tabletop at a 30 degree angle.
Around the world, many cultures use the abacus in pre-schools and elementary schools as an aid in teaching the numeral system and arithmetic.
The abacus is often used to represent numbers without the use of place value. Each bead and each wire has the same value and used in this way it can represent numbers up to 100.