How can a beginner learn to abacus?

1, first of all, to add, subtract, multiply and divide the mnemonic memorization.

2, followed by more practice on the abacus fingering, practice fingering is the key to playing a good abacus, fingering practice, the operation can play fast, but also can play accurate, not with beads.

3, and then, find some questions combined with the recipe to practice how much, play more, but also skilled.

4, finally, to quickly play or participate in competitions, you can learn to plan the shortcut method of the disk. Such as: mental math plus oral three lines and into a line to play, you can also play with both hands, multiplication can be used to multiply before the empty disk and so on.

5, in short, to play the abacus familiar, fast, accurate, the only way is to practice more.

Expanded

Abacus structure:

The new shape of the abacus is a rectangle, the week for the wooden frame, inside the straight column, commonly known as the "file". Generally from nine to fifteen stalls, stalls across the beam, two beads on the beam, each bead for the number of five, five beads under the beam, each bead for the number of a bead, the operation of the positioning of the beads after the calculation, you can do the addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and other algorithms.

The existing abacus shape, material varies. General abacus is mostly wooden (or plastic), abacus by the rectangular wooden frame arranged in a string of equal number of days of the abacus beads, there is a beam to the bead system is divided into the upper and lower parts of the abacus beads within the straight columns, commonly known as the "file", generally 9 files, 11 files or 13 files. Stalls across the beam, beam 1 bead, the bead for 5; beam under 5 beads, each bead for 1.