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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.
Open and printShow 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.
Open and printLittle 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.
Open and printTimes 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.
Open and printEvery diagram is drawn exactly the way a real soroban shows the number.
For classrooms and resource pages
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