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Abacus lessons:
Introducing the Abacus

The Abax:
Introducing the Abax
Counting on the Abax:
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Test Yourself
Addition on the Abax:
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Subtraction on the Abax:
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How to make your own Abax
With things you have around the house.

All you need is some cardboard and some pennies. It will take about 10 minutes to make.

Watch the video, then download the PDF file of how to make an abax. It's free. Simply click on the link to view it, or right-click to download it to your computer.

The pdf. file is the same as the video, so you can read it at your leisure.

Learn the basics of how to use an Abax from the links on the left, and then get some detailed lessons and practice with the MathMojo booklet,"Counting and Adding on an Abax."

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