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Printable soroban flash cards

Build a deck of bead-reading cards and print it. Pick how many rods and how many cards; the answers print underneath or on their own list.

Deck #4100. The same settings and number always produce the same deck, so you can reprint an identical set — or press New deck for different numbers at the same difficulty.

9
8
1
5
4
2
3
7
6
9
5
1

How to use them

  1. 1Print the deck and cut along the dashed lines.
  2. 2Hold a card up and ask for the number the beads show.
  3. 3Start with one rod. Move to two only when the answer comes without counting.
  4. 4Turn the number off to quiz, on to study — the answer list prints either way.

Reading a bead position as a number instantly, without counting the beads one by one, is the skill every later technique is built on. Cards drill it faster than a screen does because there is no interface between the child and the number. Nothing here is uploaded and no account is involved.