Again, place the abacus back onto the table. Right index finger is used and moved in a sweeping motion from left to right between top of the beam and bottom of heaven beads forcing the heaven beads to move away from the beam. During this operation the aba

Ask them to use the left hand for quantities 1-5 (because we read from left to right) and add the right hand for 6-10. See left figures below. Set the AL abacus flat on a surface with the dot in the upper right hand corner. Clear by tilting the abacus so

Now, place the abacus back onto the table and hold it with the left hand. Then, using the back of the right index finger, make a sweeping motion from left to right between the top of the beam and the bottom of the upper beads as shown in figure (B). This