Arithmetic
Purpose
- Number Sense
- Concept of numerals
- Concrete and abstract number learning
- Confidence in exploring number work
Principle
- Use concrete materials to teach abstract concept of arithmetic
- Opportunity to success
- Attractive materials to perform a math operation
"Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence."
- Maria Montessori
Numbers to Ten
Number Rods
- Use concrete materials to introduce the idea of quantity, symbol and sequencing of the numbers
Decimal System Continued
The Stamp Game
- Use concrete materials to introduce the operation of addition, substraction, multiplication and division.
Decimal System
Formation of Large Number Cards with Beads
- To combine the quantities with the corresponding numerals
Exploration and Memorization of Tables
Snake Game
- To show all the possible combinations of ten.
- Indirect prepare children for algebra
Teens and Tens - Teens, Tens and Counting
Skip Counting
- Strengthen counting skills
- To prepare the child for multiplication
Passage to Abstration
The Dot Game
- To emphasis the mechanism of changing
- To prepare the child for abstract addition