Homemade Abacus

Home made Abacus

Materials : Wooden  batten (lipping pattil), Pencils, Beads 

Idea from http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/toys/abacus.html

Slipper can also be used instead of wooden batten

Using Slipper/Wooden batten :

• A simple abacus can be made from a used rubber slipper/wooden batten. 

• Make three equidistant circular holes in a slipper with a shoemaker’s punch, Or drill in wooden batten. They should be just big enough so that a pencil can fit tightly in them. 

• Stand three pencils in the slipper. Cut the pencils so that only nine beads can be fitted in one pencil. 

• The pencils represent place value – the right one “units” the middle one “tens” and the left one “hundreds”. 

Below Image represents value '234'