Review on 🧮 Melissa & Doug Abacus - A Timeless Wooden Educational Toy with 100 Beads for Counting by George Halbohm

My 7 year old daughter still uses her fingers for simple addition despite being in a gifted math program and having progressed to and understands more advanced math. Of course she's missing her fingers! So I ordered this abacus not sure if she would even understand how to use it. Well she uses it daily and it's a great image to really see what each number looks like and why we need to add or subtract them to solve a problem. She even learned simple multiplication (3x3, 2x4 and 2x11 were problems she had to solve). 2 four times" and "2 eleven times" and also made it easy for her to understand that multiplication is a general property. Don't worry about multiplication anymore! I love this abacus. We've only had it this way so far used but I'm really looking forward to reading the instructions and watching some YouTube videos as another reviewer suggested.Based on the positive reviews I chose this abacus and I'm happy with it!It's sturdy and stable and fulfilled its purpose.I have a 2 year old who loves to move the beads around and they are not flimsy.