Made Abaci

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  • July 5, 2011 at 4:21 am
    suzukimom
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    Well, I have 3 homemade abaci made (glue is drying – hopefully they work out….)

    Don’t know how long they will last, but they were made out of things I had on hand, and I think they look pretty good.

    They each took 6 craft sticks, 10 bamboo skewers (cut to  size), and 100 pony beans (half dark, half light), binder clips (to hold while glue dries… may leave them on the corners), 

    July 5, 2011 at 1:40 pm
    missingtheshire
    Member

    Clever idea, it is amazing what we can do when we set out minds to it. Great thing to have as well – hope they last a long time for you. Linda

    July 5, 2011 at 3:36 pm
    suzukimom
    Participant

    They look really good…  The beads do touch the table when sitting on the table… I am thinking of adding more craft sticks to the frame to build it up so that the beads don’t touch.   I will also have to eventually add “labels” to the one side (place value side) – but have to say that I don’t totally get how that side is used from the demo on rightstart’s site.

    July 5, 2011 at 7:36 pm
    suzukimom
    Participant

    OK, I’m pretty happy here…  the abaci are working well.

    I played “go to the dump” with regular playing cards with the kids, after showing them quickly how to use the abaci.  I first showed them how the abaci has the groupings of 5 so you can read the numbers quickly, and we sang “Yellow is the Sun” using the abacus to show each number.

    The kids used the abacus well for playing the game.  Foxtrot (who is 3) was on my team… I would setup the abacus to figure out the number – and then ask her what number we needed (so all she had to do was read the beads – so for her it was a practice reading the beads without counting) and she did great!   And when we were asked for cards, I would have her look for the number in our cards (good practice of number recognition) and then give them to ther person asking.

    We played it twice, and the kids are looking forward to playing it tomorrow.

    Now we just either have to get the darned kit… or I’m going to need to at least get the games deck and book…. 

    July 13, 2011 at 1:52 am
    suzukimom
    Participant

    If anyone wants to see a picture of the abaci that I made…. I finally did a blog post on it which includes a picture.

     

    http://maplehillacademy.blogspot.com/

     

    July 13, 2011 at 2:21 am
    Michele Barmore
    Participant

    Those look wonderful

    I never thought of making my own.

    I love that picture on your site also.

    Doesn’t that feel good when you make

    Something like that instead of buying it

    Mic

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