An abacus is an excellent way to help children realise the importance of place value. This week we have published two sets of year 2 maths worksheets on the abacus. The first asks children to read the numbers from the abacus and the second asks for an abacus to be drawn. All numbers are 3-digit, or hundreds, tens and units, which most year 2 children will not have had a lot of experience with. A key point to understanding this is the zero which acts as a place 'holder'. For example, in the number 405 if the zero was missing it would be read as 45! Go to the first of our hundreds, tens and units abacus worksheets