St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, and we are continuing the ☘️themed week today with this simple DIY addition activity. Hands-on concrete learning with visual counters is more accessible to children than the abstract mathematical concepts. So, this DIY is an invitation to count, perform addition, feel the counters, trace the sandpaper numbers and make numbers with pipe cleaners! We are using shamrock cutouts (these glittered ones) and lucky Leprechaun gold coins as counters.
TIP: for a DIY, cut out shamrock shapes yourself from green cardstock (two smaller identicals for addends and one larger for a sun), and use any green counters you have handy: pom poms, buttons, beads, marbles etc.
Once the child calculates the sun, offer to make that number from pipe cleaners and also offer to trace it using Montessori Sandpaper numbers.
If you would like to ✂️ make sandpaper numbers, see here a video-tutorial 🖐️Sandpaper 🔢 Numbers (Montessori 🔢 Math 101 🎥 Series 🎇 Curriculum), and see here how we made sandpaper letters "DIY Sandpaper Letter "S" (Montessori 🔠 101 Language).
For more on St. Patrick's Day inspired math activities, see here ☘️Shamrock ✂️DIY ♻️Recycled 🍡Popsicle Puzzle Skip Counting by 🔟s. Also, see our entire unit study here ☘️St. Patrick's Day Kids Activities.
For more addition math lessons, see below:
For more on addition, see a post 🎥 here "Montessori Math Simple ➕ Addition using Marble-Counters" which also has an intro What is Montessori Math? Also see here an Extension to Strip Board: "➕Addition Strip Board Making 🔟’s (Montessori 🔢 Math 🎥 Lesson)."
For more on math, see here a post 🎥 video "Beginning ➖ Subtraction 🎥 (Montessori 🔢 Math Lesson)."
See links to previous math lessons here.
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