Bead Balloons
Each balloon carries a little abacus. Read the dice and pop it with that number. No ads, no lives, no losing.
How to play
Balloons float up from the meadow. Under each one hangs a card with abacus rods: the coral top die is worth 5, each blue bottom die is worth 1, and a die counts when it touches the bar. Work out the number and type it, or tap it on the number pad. Pop 20 balloons to win.
Start with Small balloons (one rod, 0 to 9). Big balloons carry two rods (tens and ones) and Giant balloons three. If a balloon floats away nothing is lost; the next ones come a little slower.
What it practices
Reading numbers on the abacus at a glance, the skill from Level 1 of the abacus lessons. Children who can read the beads quickly find adding on the abacus much easier later.