SonshineLearner Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I just receive my abacus with their books Learning Mathematics with the Abacus I'm so excited. Has anyone been using this?? I'm excited to start using this right after Christmas. Carrie:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline4kids Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 I love these books. The only reason I stopped was the lack of books to move into after we finished. All of my kids really enjoyed it and there is something so neat about the kids clacking away on their abacus'. I just didn't know where to go after they finished the second book. Personally, I didn't feel that I could get the more advanced techiques down enough to be able to present them. There is a nice Japanese man in CA that has a DVD curriculum that goes all the way through advanced math, but in the end I went back to other more traditional things--even though I loved the soroban. Now if only nurtureminds.com or mathabacus.com had books that went all the way though hs level math! All that aside, I am starting my four year old on it. We will probably switch to MUS when she finishes or Life of Fred. The abacus is awesome for understanding place value, regrouping, carrying, borrowing, and mental math. I couldn't move the beads in my head, but my kids could! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline4kids Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 If you are interesting in the other curriculum you can find it at: http://www.citivu.com/usa/sigmaed/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted December 20, 2008 Author Share Posted December 20, 2008 Thanks for the encouragement! There's a "saturday school" in Portland called "Jams" that teaches the abacus, but we're kinda out of money...and it's an hour away. Maybe we'll check out some books after book #2 if we like it:-) Carrie:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieF Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Is this similar to rightstart? Stephanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Uhura Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 No. I took a look at the link the OP posted and this uses a traditional Japanese abacus either the soroban or the other one, I forget it's name. One of them have 1 bead on top, 5 beads on bottom whereas the other (older) has 2 beads on top and 5 on the bottom (I have this one as a show piece on my wall, lol). We use the RS abacus (10 beads on each row, 5 each of a color) and love it. The Japanese abacus is great and fun to learn to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 This abacus has one "heavenly bead" and then beads underneath. My husband worked through the first book and he's excited. It has one book to use for each year and then a workbook,too. It also teaches you from the beginning to visualize the beads so that children use to "do the abacus" in their heads which helps with mental calculations. (In years one & two they do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.) Carrie:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sanya Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Abacus is a tool for calculation which consists of rods having beads. It helps in increasing memory retention,right brain activation,whole brain development,listening skills and many other things. Any kind of help regarding learning this, may be attained from this link http://www.axisabacus.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeachingMyTwo Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 This is obviously an OLD post, but I wanted to ask how things went for your family in learning the Japanese abacus? We are just now getting started with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Acerbica Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 If you are interesting in the other curriculum you can find it at: http://www.citivu.com/usa/sigmaed/ Hi Caroline, I went to this link, but it's just for a city in CA. I don't see any way to find the DVD-maker/Japanese man you refered to, and I am really interested in looking at his stuff. Can you help me? Thanks! -Terese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathermomster Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 http://www.nurturemi...-1-textbook.htm I'm ashamed to say this. I bought the abacus books last summer, and my DD would have none.of.it. I need to dig them out and try again. I just came across an interesting blog which cited a couple of IPAD apps. ETA:::Okay..dug out the books this morning. We easily covered the first 20 pages of the Year 1 book. A three rod abacus would work better, so we may make one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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