Meng Lelan Posted June 7, 2011 at 03:47 PM Report Posted June 7, 2011 at 03:47 PM I don't know where else to put this new thread. So I have here a Chinese abacus and I need textbooks and activity books for kids in basic abacus instruction. Chinese and English ok. Help please. Quote
Michaelyus Posted June 7, 2011 at 04:37 PM Report Posted June 7, 2011 at 04:37 PM http://webhome.idirect.com/~totton/abacus/pages.htm (in Am. English) is the main resource I use. It's actually for use of the soroban, but that's OK because it's only a 算盘 without the top 'heaven' bead and bottom 'earth' bead, so it's base 10 only. (I assuming you'll not be doing hexadecimal stuff [yet].) For children though, I don't know any books or sites. Sorry. Quote
Meng Lelan Posted June 7, 2011 at 07:43 PM Author Report Posted June 7, 2011 at 07:43 PM That site looks nice. Several years ago I got a kids workbook in Chinese, but it was for the soroban. I just checked online, there's a company that makes a set of workbooks in English for the soroban. I guess maybe I have to work my Chinese connections and see if there's any specific for the Chinese suanpan. Doesn't matter if they're in Chinese or English....I feel like it would be confusing for my kids to be working from a book using the soroban as a model. Quote
Shelley Posted June 7, 2011 at 10:02 PM Report Posted June 7, 2011 at 10:02 PM Hello, I don't know about something just for kids, but this might help http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/AbacusGB.html Good luck, Shelley Quote
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