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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 8Twelve 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.Open and print
Show the Number: Beginner · Ages 5 to 8The 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.Open and print
Little Friends Addition: Improver · Ages 6 to 9Twenty 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.Open and print
Abacus Level 1 Worksheets: Level 1 · Ages 5 to 8The Level 1 practice sheet: single-digit addition and subtraction that needs no complement formulas, so every problem is a direct bead movement. This is the stage a child works through before little friends are introduced. Answers included.Open and print
Abacus Level 2 Worksheets: Level 2 · Ages 6 to 10The Level 2 practice sheet: additions that carry past ten and need the ten complements, known as the big friends. This is where a child stops counting and starts using the formulas properly. Answers included.Open and print
Times Tables Sprint: Confident · Ages 8 to 12A 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.Open and print

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

These sheets are drawn from our Level 1 curriculum. Apply for a demo class to see them taught live, in batches capped at ten students.

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Pair the sheets with our free virtual soroban on a whiteboard or class tablets, or keep our multiplication chart and times tables and square and cube number lists open for quick reference. For ordinary school maths rather than soroban work, there is a sheet with answers for every year group in our maths worksheets by year.

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