If your kid is getting confused, refer to the place concept explained above. Ask your kid to push four beads in the ones place to an upwards position, three beads in the tens place to an upwards position, two beads in the hundreds place to an upwards position, one bead in the thousands place in an upward position and so on.If your kid wants to add, for instance, 12, here is how you can teach the method.Here is how you can teach the concept of addition and subtraction to your kid with the help of an abacus: Addition: 1. Start With The First Number: Together, with one and five, it will read as the numeric six.At the same time, the bead in the top row will have to be in a downward position to represent the number five.In a similar way, to count the number six, your kid will have to push one bead from the bottom row in an upward position.

In this position, the abacus beads will read as the numeric five.Your kid will have to push one bead from the top row to a downward position and push all the four beads from the below column to a downward position as well. The bottom row has only four beads, so to move from the number four to five, your kid will have to make use of the bead above.To represent the number two, your kid will have to do the same thing but with two beads, and so on. To represent the number one, your kid will have to push only one bead from the row below in the farthest column on the right to an up position.To start counting, your kid will first have to push one of the beads to the upwards position.

Abacus counting games