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Counting 1 to 100 Using an abacus.
Preschoolers, toddlers and babies love counting on an abacus. They visualize the colorcoded beads, watch the digits increase, and hear the spoken numbers. Kids learn place value, inparticular units, tens and hundreds. This is a decimal abacus specifically used to teach younger children how to count.

I used this exact method to teach my son how to count on an real abacus. He learned to count to 100 before the age of two, but more importantly he developed an understanding of place value. Using this method, kids will learn to visualize the value of numbers, rather than simply memorizing words as many toddlers do when they first learn to count.

As a Mathematics teacher of twenty years, and parent of two young boys, I can honestly say there is no better way to learn how to count. This concept can easily be extended to continue counting into hundreds, thousands and beyond.

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