
SumzUp® Soroban Abacus Lessons
Learn mental math with Soroban
Free · Designed for iPad
Master Mental Math with the Soroban! Practice Arithmetic, Build Confidence, and Train Your Brain with SumzUp®!
Boost your arithmetic and soroban skills with SumzUp®, a powerful math learning app based on the soroban (Japanese abacus). Whether you struggle with dyscalculia, math anxiety, or just want to improve your mental math, SumzUp helps learners of all levels succeed.
What You'll Learn and Practice:
• Mental math using the soroban, a Japanese abacus
• Step-by-step techniques for number recognition, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Personalized mental math exercises to sharpen number sense and math confidence
Features You'll Love:
• Game-like exercises and challenges that make arithmetic practice fun
• Adaptive difficulty to match your skill level
• Designed with input from dyscalculia experts and learners with math challenges
• Step-by-step lessons to become a soroban master
• Great for kids, adults, and learners of all levels
• Visual, tactile, and memory-based soroban lessons
Why Soroban?
The Japanese abacus (soroban) helps you build fast, accurate mental math through tactile, visual, and memory-based learning. It’s used worldwide to improve cognitive flexibility and number sense and accuracy.
Whether you're improving basic arithmetic, overcoming math anxiety, homeschooling, looking for brain-boosting activities, or building fast mental math skills, SumzUp makes learning arithmetic fast, intuitive, and empowering.
With game-like soroban training, SumzUp helps you build the foundation you need to become a soroban master.
Originally created to support those with dyscalculia and other math difficulties, SumzUp has grown into a powerful tool for anyone ready to master mental math and build confidence and accuracy through easy-to-understand math questions— one bead at a time.
Built by one, refined by many with dyscalculia.
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Fixed in 1.4.6: Removed ads as they frequently caused the app to crash
Changed in 1.4.0 - 1.4.5:
New features: Anzan - mental arithmetic practice
New language: Russian (Русский - Auto translated)
Fixed:
- App crashes on load
- Auto anzan speed didn't use your average speed
- Navigation bug after logging out/in
- Sound stops working
- Minor bug fixes
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Information
- Provider
- SumzUp
- Size
- 45.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 SumzUp