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Abacus · Ages 5+ · Set A
Count to five
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Remember: Five beads are half a row. Count them one by one.

Balloons and fingers

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Balloons at the fairAt the fair, Pip counted balloons for Mia. One bead for one balloon. Three, four, five! Every balloon had its own bead. Five beads are half a row.
1
How many beads are slid across?
456
2
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈How many beads for the balloons?
345
3
🐟🐟🐟🐟How many beads for the fish?
453
4
🖐️Does one hand have five fingers?
YesNo
5
🙌Do two hands have five fingers in all?
YesNo

Half a row

6
How many beads fill a whole row?
🔟Ten🖐️Five🟣🟣🟣Three
7
Five beads are how much of a row?
🔟The whole row🖐️Half the row
8
Which frame shows half a row?
A
B
C
9
Are these five beads half a row?
YesNo
10
Join each to its beads.
  1. 1☝️ one finger
  2. 2✌️ two fingers
  3. 3🖐️ one hand
  • Aone bead
  • Btwo beads
  • Cfive beads
11
Slide five beads across. Draw them.
12
Trace the numbers.
4 5 4 5 4 5
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Answer key · Set A
Count to five
15 Five beads are across. That is half a row.
25 Each balloon gets one bead. Five balloons need five beads.
34 Four fish need four beads.
4Yes One hand has five fingers.
5No Each hand has five, so two hands have ten fingers.
6Ten A whole row has ten beads. Five is only half.
7Half the row Five beads are half a row, just halfway across.
8C Half a row is five beads. Frame C has five across.
9Yes Yes. Five beads on a row of ten are half the row.
101-A, 2-B, 3-C
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