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The wooden Abacus is a “calculator” that teaches math skills, pattern and color recognition, and more! Fun activity ideas included. Incredible value and superior craftsmanship characterize this childhood favorite. Brightly colored, smooth-sanded pieces help build early shape, color and size differentiation skills.
From the Greek word abax, meaning "calculating board" or "calculating table" the Chinese abacus was invented during the Yuan Dynasty, 1280-1368 AD. The hundred colored wooden beads slide smoothly on this classically styled high quality frame. To use to teach children to add: Each row of the abacus can be used as a number column (ie, ones column, tens column, hundreds column and so on).
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