Giant Wooden Abacus - Natural Beads

The Giant Wooden Abacus with natural beads combines functionality and aesthetic appeal, offering a robust learning tool for exploring number sense concepts. It features a sturdy wooden frame with ten removable rods, each holding 10 beads split evenly between light and dark natural timber colours (50 beads each). The bead size (36 mm x 22 mm) and abacus height (56.5 cm) make it ideal for classroom demonstrations. The unique design allows teachers to customise bead groupings, such as sets of twos or fives, and remove rods to focus counting activities on numbers up to 10 or 20. This flexibility supports teaching number patterns, partitioning, addition, subtraction, and multiplication tables in a visually engaging manner. Each abacus is crafted from natural wood, so the timber's colour may vary slightly, adding character to each unit. The stainless steel rods ensure durability for active classroom use.

Educational Benefits:

• Supports development of number sense through tactile and visual manipulation.
• Encourages exploration of number patterns and arithmetic operations.
• Allows for customised grouping to teach place value and partitioning.
• Flexible rod removal aids differentiation and targeted skill practice.

Classroom Ideas:

• Demonstrate addition and subtraction strategies using natural-coloured beads.
• Encourage students to rearrange beads for personalised learning activities.
• Use in small groups to explore multiplication and division facts.
• Incorporate rod removal to scaffold counting for different ability levels.

Information:

• Ages: Suitable for primary learners, especially Years 1 to 4
• Measurements: 56.5 cm (H); beads 36 mm x 22 mm; 10 removable rods