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Printable abacus worksheets

Pick a level, pick how many questions, print. Fifteen levels from reading the beads to four-digit carrying, with an answer key for whoever marks it.

1 · How it is laid out

2 · Which level

3 · How many questions

4 · What to print

Free to print and photocopy. Nothing is uploaded — the sheet is made in your browser.

Making your worksheet…

What makes these different

Never the same sheet twice

Questions are generated, not drawn from a fixed list, and no two on a sheet repeat. Press New questions for a fresh set of the same difficulty — so a child who needs a third go at small friends gets a third sheet, not the one they have already memorised.

Every sum is actually doable

They come from the same generator that runs the game, which is checked against every route on a real abacus. A worksheet can only ask a sum that fits the rods it prints and uses the technique its level teaches.

An answer key for whoever marks it

A last page with all the answers. Print it or don't — it is a separate page, so the sheet a child gets can be handed over without it.

Nothing is uploaded

The PDF is built in your browser and never leaves it. No account, no email, no watermark, and free to photocopy for a class.

The worksheets are the practice. The game is the teaching.

A sheet of sums can tell a child they got one wrong. It can't show them the five-complement one finger at a time, or say out loud why 6 − 2 starts by taking five off. Abacus Quest does both, and it is free too.