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Instruction Booklet for Using an Abacus for the Blind, Book 1: Basics of Addition and Subtraction  improved marketed product
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Target Instructors teaching how to use the special abacus for the blind (Horie Abacus)
Children and students who can learn by themselves by reading the booklet
Disability category visual impairment　physically challenged　developmental disabilities　deaf-blind
Teaching units / Applicable scenes arithmetic, mathematics
Specific purposes The booklet shows how to use the special abacus for the blind (Horie Abacus. See ID591.) and facilitates children and students understand the basic methods of adding and subtracting numbers using an abacus.
Considerations for disability characteristics The booklet describes how to use the fingers and move the beads in an easy-to-understand manner by using many photographs.
Expected effects and results ・ The booklet uses letters and layouts that are easy even for people with low vision to see.
・ The booklet covers the basics of how to use an abacus and is thus useful also for people outside Japan.
How to use ・ Instructors are to move the beads of the abacus by reading the booklet in advance to deepen their understanding. Then they are to teach children and/or students how to use an abacus.
Related teaching materials and information References:
・ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Reference Materials for Braille Textbook: Abacus 1 (in Japanese)
・WATANABE Sumi ed. Booklet for Using Abacus in a Blind School (in Japanese), School for the Blind, Tokyo University of Education

・ ID591 “Horie Abacus” in the Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education (abacus for visually impaired persons) is produced and sold by Horie Shoji and is available from the online shop of Japan Braille Library.
・ ID125 “Abacus Cover for Persons with Visual Impairment” in the Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education
Useful for other students The booklet is also useful for teaching children and students who have difficulty using an ordinary abacus.
  • Informant Study Group on Education for Children with Total and Partial Blindness, Elementary Department , Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
  • Keywords visual impairment, abacus, how to use fingers, how to move beads
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