Features
Size: 10.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 cm
Made from ABS plastic.

Why choose a soroban?

After age 6, at Monde du boulier, we consider the Japanese abacus or soroban to be the best type of abacus for serious educational use.
It is designed to perform basic and more complex calculations and will support the student in their educational journey well beyond primary school. It is possible to use it for complex calculations using the same principles.

Created in the 17th century based on the Chinese abacus, the soroban is now the most common form in education. (And rightly so!)

For your child, the abacus will be a perfect factor for success.

Why learning the abacus is necessary?

Mathematics is an abstract concept; it has often been confirmed by serious studies that children under 10 years old have difficulties with abstract concepts similar to mathematics.
These issues can lead to a range of problems, from a lack of acceptance of arithmetic in less severe cases to loss of self-confidence and even academic failure, even among bright students.
Performing operations on an abacus will help your child visualize numbers and build mental models that will support them throughout their schooling and beyond into their later life.

The abacus: an ancient tool still relevant today.

Children who use the abacus during their education generally achieve significantly higher scores in IQ assessments compared to their peers, even surpassing children who study according to the most modern and experimental educational theories.

The abacus helps your children beyond mathematics.

Using the abacus benefits children’s memory in two ways. First, the student no longer needs to memorize individual solutions to arithmetic problems. Once the child has learned how the abacus works, they will know how to solve any math problem. They will no longer need to remember solutions or calculation steps because it will always be the same method.
The second way the abacus supports their memory is that they can very clearly see how they arrived at the result. By understanding how calculations and numbers work, they can see how other problems work. Once the student can solve a problem, they no longer need to keep the answers in their short-term memory.
Children tend to learn problems rather than develop methods to solve them and thus face a type of rote learning that is not always easily visible.
This issue is easily resolved by using an abacus, as the abacus fosters an intuitive understanding of arithmetic.

From primary school to high school, the abacus provides distinct value for the student who uses it.