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Free printable abacus worksheets

Clean, photocopier-friendly soroban practice sheets. No sign-up, no watermark walls, no catch. Print them, share them, use them in class.

Reading the Beads

Beginner · Ages 5 to 8

Twelve soroban diagrams, from single digits up to two-digit numbers. Children read the bead positions and write the number underneath. The first skill every abacus learner builds.

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Show the Number

Beginner · Ages 5 to 8

The reverse skill: twelve empty soroban diagrams with a target number above each. Children colour the beads that would move toward the bar. Builds the mental picture that later becomes anzan.

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Little Friends Addition

Improver · Ages 6 to 9

Twenty four addition problems inside 9. Several need the classic little friends trick (the pairs that make 5), the first real technique of soroban arithmetic. Works as a pencil sheet or alongside a real abacus.

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Times Tables Sprint

Confident · Ages 8 to 12

A speed grid of the tables children find hardest, the same ones checks like the UK's Year 4 MTC lean on. Time it gently once the facts are secure, never before.

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Every diagram is drawn exactly the way a real soroban shows the number.

For classrooms and resource pages

Pair the sheets with our free virtual soroban on a whiteboard or class tablets. You can embed the full working abacus directly in your school or homeschool site with one snippet:

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  src="https://cliffpointabacus.com/embed/virtual-abacus"
  title="Virtual soroban abacus by Cliffpoint Abacus Academy"
  width="100%" height="560" style="border:0;border-radius:12px"
  loading="lazy"></iframe>

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