Melissa & Doug Abacus - Classic Wooden Educational Counting Toy With 100 Beads

You can never go wrong with Melissa and Doug. The brand can be a little pricey, but this was very affordable and even lower than what it retails for on their website. The colors are bright and beautiful. It's also very sturdy, making it extremely durable, and the overall quality is amazing and worth the money.

Great abacus for the price. Great quality wood and easy for little hard to use. The bright colors help kiddos to easily see the ones, tens, hundreds..etc. highly recommend!

This is sturdy and of course the kids like it.

It was all together when it arrived and it was here when it was suppose to be.

We love this product. We use it with our 10 month old supervised. It's kinda heavy and could hurt a little toe if you don't help them play with it. He loves it!!! Moving the beads back and forth is fun for him. We can't wait to start teaching him how to count on it. You can even use it to teach colors!!!

This is a school childhood memory for me. I dont know if to keep it at my home all let all the grandkids enjoy counting on it when they come over or get to the youngest. This is more of my want, Im going to keep it and use it as a Decorative piece.

Wooden product might stand the test of time with the kids

Wonderfull

The abacus is sturdy and well-constructed. However, for OUR purposes we would have been happier if it had a wider base to provide more stability. We also think it would be a better learning tool if each row of beads had five beads in one color and five beads in a second color. We are using the abacus for our grown son who had a stroke. He is very slowly recovering but lost the ability to speak and read. He was formerly very number/math-friendly, and we hope the abacus will help with restoring some of that ability. He has shown distinct signs that he still retains some ability with numbers, and we want to enhance that. We realize our intended use diverges from the usual for kids, so take the critical comments with a grain of salt. Had we bought this for a child, we would probably have given it a five-star rating. I will also note that our son was pleased with all of us zinging beads across the wires... maybe not a numerical function, but still fun... and making him laugh is a reward in and of itself !

wrong price for budget