Start with all the beads to the left.
Count the number of beads representing the ones column of the first number and push them to the right on the top row.
Count the number of beads representing the ones column of the second number and push them from the left to the right.
Repeat the process through the tens, hundreds, thousands — however large your numbers are (as long as you don’t run out of rows on your bead frame).
Read off the number of beads on each row, writing down the number that represents the sum of the original numbers.
Start with all the beads to the left.
Count the number of beads representing the ones column of the first number and push them to the right on the top row.
Count the number of beads representing the ones column of the second number. If you run out of beads, push one bead from the “tens” row over to the right, push all the beads on the “ones” row back to the left, then move some back from left to right until you have finished moving beads representing the ones of the second number.
For example, if you have a 7 in the first number and a 6 in the second number, you would have 7 beads on the right when you needed to add 6 more. There would only be three beads left, so you would move those three over, then slide all ten back to the left, exchanging them for one bead moved from left to right in the tens column. You would still have three more left to move from left to right on the units row.
Repeat the process until all the digits have been added.
Read off the number of beads in each row, writing them in the proper place to represent the sum of the two numbers.