After observing Julia doing multiplication exercises, Adrian expressed an interest, so we have been doing some multiplication work this past month. To illustrate the process concretely, we are using these mega building blocks to introduce…
Montessori Sandpaper Numbers are a traditional math material designed for preschoolers to promote numeracy through hands-on sensorial activity. Sandpaper Numbers is a Montessori lesson that is in a math area but is indeed a…
Traditional Montessori materials, especially math materials, facilitate tremendously in the application of abstract concepts like numerals, teens, and ten’s with my children. Dr. Maria Montessori envisioned children holding and “feeling” the quantity of, for example, the…
In a Montessori Math curriculum, after introducing Numerical Rods (buy here) at around two years of age, Sandpaper Numbers (buy here) are generally introduced next, where a child visually sees the number; then traces it, feeling it…