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Live online · Ages 6 to 12 · Batches of ten

Online Abacus Classes for Kids in Qatar🇶🇦

Three-digit sums in their head, with no calculator and no finger counting. The first live class is free, and you watch it.

Near you, wherever you live in Qatar: every class is live online, in your time zone, and your child joins from home.

How old is your child?

Show us on the beads.Top bead 5Bottom beads 1 eachLeft rod tens

We teach ages 6 to 12. Not sure if yours fits? Book anyway and ask the instructor on the call.

Move the beads to show your child’s age.

Not sure how the beads work?

Fill in the simple form insteadSee how a soroban works

Book a free demo class

A live 30-minute lesson with the instructor who would teach your child. You watch the whole class.

500+ students over 7+ years · certified instructor · live, never recorded

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Your child

How old is your child?

Turning 6 soon? Pick 5. Every child starts at Level 1.

Batch times are set for your time zone.

  • Free. No card, nothing to pay.
  • Nobody will ask you to pay or decide anything on the call.

Seats open in the current batch

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Trusted by families across Qatar 🇶🇦, the United States 🇺🇸, and the United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

Built around Qatari school life

After-school slots in local time that sit alongside the Sunday to Thursday school week, whichever curriculum your child follows.

British curriculum
Year 1 to Year 7
American & IB
Grade 1 to Grade 6
CBSE & ICSE
Class 1 to Class 6

For families in Qatar

How abacus fits your child’s schooling, whichever curriculum they follow

British, American, IB, or CBSE: the mental maths skills children build with the Japanese soroban method sit underneath all of them. Here is what each stage tends to look like.

  1. Ages 5 to 7

    FS2 to Year 2 · KG to Grade 1

    Early years

    Number sense, visualisation, and finger-to-bead confidence. Children build a physical model of how numbers behave before they meet column arithmetic in a workbook.

    Counting on, counting back, and number bonds start to feel obvious rather than memorized.

  2. Ages 7 to 11

    Year 3 to Year 6 · Grade 2 to Grade 5

    Primary years

    Mental addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division at speed. After about a year of regular practice, most children begin the transition from physical beads to a mental abacus, doing the maths in their head.

    Times tables, mental maths checks, and multi-step word problems start feeling routine, whichever curriculum sets them.

  3. Ages 10 to 12

    Upper primary and exam preparation

    Grades 5 to 6 · Years 6 to 7

    Speed and accuracy under timed conditions. The mental abacus keeps arithmetic from becoming the bottleneck, so entrance assessments, external exams, and the jump to secondary school get your child’s full attention.

    Steadier pace on timed papers and school assessments, and confidence walking into any maths test.

For children who have lost confidence with maths, or freeze on timed tests, the structured 10-level path tends to rebuild that confidence one level at a time. Each level gives a small, clear win.

Most families in Qatar start their child between ages 6 and 10. A later starter still benefits, moving through the same 10 levels at a quicker pace in the early stages.

The parent portal

Quality over quantity is easy to say. We let you check it, class by class.

Every family gets a private parent portal. After most classes the instructor writes you a note about your child, and the attendance, the timed tests and the certificates sit beside it.

IraLevel 2 · Mon and Thu batchSample child

Updates from class

  1. Thu 16 Oct New

    Set 47 + 25 with no wrong moves, and used the index finger for the top bead without a reminder. Two minutes a day on “take five, add one” before Monday.

  2. Mon 13 Oct

    A slow start, then the steadiest hand in the batch on the last round. Ask her to show you a sum on the beads tonight.

After most classes, the instructor writes what your child did and what to practise next.

Example screens with a sample child. The portal opens when your child joins a batch, and each family sees only their own child.

Parents answer the question you came here with: is abacus good for kids?

My son's math skills improved dramatically after just three months of classes. His concentration has improved in all subjects too.
Sarah Fernandes·Parent of 8-year-old

Excited about maths for the first time

Yes! He is enjoying the classes. I have never seen him so excited about math.
Pravin·Parent of 7-year-old

Now enjoys maths challenges

After six months of classes, my daughter's confidence in mathematics has soared. She now enjoys math challenges!
Lisa Rodriguez·Parent of 7-year-old

Significant improvement in just months

Thank you so much, teacher. It is due to your patience and dedication that my child has shown significant improvement. We truly appreciate your efforts.
Hanisha Ali·Parent of 8-year-old

Completed level with full marks

We are delighted to share that our daughter has completed her level today with full marks! This achievement wouldn't have been possible without your constant support.
Mahesh·Parent of 9-year-old

What happens after you book

Four steps, and only one of them is yours

  1. You book

    Two short steps: your child's age, then how to reach you.

  2. We confirm a time

    Within 24 hours, by email or phone, with the fee for your country in writing.

  3. Your child takes the class

    Live, on a real soroban, with the instructor who would teach them.

  4. A seat is offered

    After the class, by invitation. An invitation holds a seat for 14 days.

Nobody will ask you to pay or decide anything on the call.

Class facts

Everything a month includes

Live classes
2 a week, 1 hour each
Children in a batch
10 at most
Batch times
Set for your time zone
Levels
10, each ending in a graded test
First graded test
About month 3
Practice at home
About 15 minutes a day
Soroban and workbook
Sent to your door
Fee
One fee for your country, in writing

It suits children aged six to twelve, including those already good at maths, in a family that can protect two hours a week and fifteen minutes a day. If that is not possible today, come back when it is: we would rather lose the enrolment than lose your child in month two.

Cliffpoint Abacus Academy teaches live online abacus classes to children aged 6 to 12 from Goa, India, to families in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Gulf, Canada, Australia and Singapore.

The ten levelsThere are ten of them, and each one ends with a test. Read what the ten-level programme asks of your child at every stage.Open the prospectus

Ten seats per batch, and every child begins with one free class.

  • Every field on one page, for parents who would rather just type
  • The fee for your country comes in writing with your demo time

Book a free demo class

A live 30-minute lesson with the instructor who would teach your child. You watch the whole class.

500+ students over 7+ years · certified instructor · live, never recorded

WhatsApp works best. We use it only to agree a demo time.

By booking, you agree we can contact you about this demo. Your details stay with us: no spam, never shared.

Seats open in the current batch

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Online, so location is not a barrier

Abacus classes near you

Looking for “abacus classes near me” in Qatar? Live online means no traffic and no institute run after a long school day. Same certified instructor, same small class, from home.

  • Doha
  • Al Rayyan
  • Al Wakrah
  • Al Khor
  • Umm Salal
  • Al Daayen
  • Mesaieed
  • Madinat ash Shamal

Classes run live over video. With a stable connection and a quiet corner, your child can join from anywhere in Qatar.

Qatar

Online abacus classes in Qatar

Our live online programme is open to families across Qatar, with batches scheduled in Arabia Standard Time around the local school week. Groups are capped at ten students and led by a certified instructor with 7+ years of teaching experience. Tuition is billed monthly in QAR, and the fee is sent in writing with your demo time; the toolkit is shipped separately. Children studying in English-medium and Arabic-medium schools follow the same 10-level abacus path.

Common questions from families in Qatar

What time zones do you teach in for Qatari families?

All Qatar batches run in Arabia Standard Time (GMT+3). Most families pick an after-school weekday slot or a Friday or Saturday morning batch. Timings stay consistent week to week.

What are the fees for abacus classes in Qatar?

One fixed monthly fee for Qatar, in Qatari riyals, the same for every family there. It covers two live classes a week, eight a month, in a batch of at most ten. We send it in writing with your demo time, so you can read it before the class, and nobody asks you to pay or decide anything on the call. The abacus and workbooks are a one-off purchase, delivered to your address.

How does the abacus fit alongside Qatari school maths curricula?

Doha's international and national schools both reward strong mental maths fluency. The abacus builds the visualisation and number sense skills underneath that fluency, with the strongest results from kids starting between Grade 1 and Grade 5.

What does the free demo class look like for Qatari families?

A real 30-minute live class with our certified instructor over video, not a recorded promo. Your child tries the abacus, the instructor walks you through the programme, and you can ask anything about timings, QAR fees, and progression. No card required to book.

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For parents

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For parents in Qatar

School types, Grade 4 standards and the calendar to 2028

Government, community or international
Qatar's Ministry of Education and Higher Education regulates public and private schools alike. Government schools teach the national curriculum, community schools may teach the curriculum of their home country, and international schools follow an international programme. The soroban belongs to none of them; it trains the calculation all of them take for granted.
Mental methods, riyals and dirhams
Qatar's national Grade 4 maths standards ask children to use and explain mental methods for all four operations, and to convert between riyals and dirhams in decimal form. Both lean on place value. Every rod on a soroban stands for a place, so ones, tens and hundreds become positions a child can see and move.
Exam weeks you can see coming
The ministry has approved the school calendar up to 2027–28: first-semester finals before Qatar National Day, the mid-year break in the last third of December, and no mid-second-semester exams in Ramadan. With those dates known, you can choose an after-school batch in Doha time around them. The fee comes in writing, in Qatari riyals, with your free demo time.

Read what an abacus is, follow the free step-by-step lessons, try the free virtual abacus, read how our mental maths classes work, or see the ten-level programme.