How Montessori Students Progress Through The Levels Of Mathematics
by Davis Collins Affiliate MarketingSummary: The materials used in
teaching mathematics to Montessori students exceptional. They look quite
different than what you used, and there are several reasons to use them.
Much
of the Montessori curriculum is about providing exposure to children with
concrete materials first and then giving them incremental opportunities to work
with abstract contents. The approach is the same when it comes to teaching
mathematics. The word “concrete” means something solid that children can hold
in their hands. These materials are symbolic. They represent something else,
perhaps a number, and that symbolism changes over time until kids are ready to
let go of the materials to find solutions on paper or even in their minds. This
particular idea of learning and mastering a skill without the assistance of
materials is what experts describe as "abstraction."
Early childhood
mathematics
While Montessori Math Materials look simple,
preschoolers are capable of more than what you can imagine.
Even before a kid learns to count, he/she experiences the skill using
materials, such as number rods. Children use different Montessori materials to
learn how to count. Apart from number rods, kids also use spindle boxes. The
spindle box is an early material with which children place the appropriate amount
of wooden spindles in compartments numbered from 1 to 9. Sandpaper numbers,
just like their alphabet counterparts, teach kids how to form each number
correctly to develop readiness for writing them on paper. When a child is ready
to learn the basic operations, they can use plenty of Montessori materials.
The overlapping period
Just
between kindergarten and the first year of lower elementary, teachers use new Montessori
Math Materials depending upon their individual capabilities and readiness.
The stamp game is probably the best example. The stamp game material is a box
that contains several sections. All these sections have small colored tiles
inside them. The color of those tiles helps them learn about the hierarchies of
“ones,” “tens,” “hundreds,” and “thousands.” Instead of holding large cubes
that show the relative size of one thousand as they did with those golden
beads, they now represent the series of tiles that are all of the same sizes.
The only two things that differentiate them are the color and number label.
About elementary math
You
already know about the colors of the stamp game. The green, blue, and red tiles
of the stamp game are the hierarchical colors, and teachers use them to teach
the number series to children. The hierarchy of colors first appears in the
stamp game, but they don’t stop there. They continue to stay with the child
throughout lower and upper elementary until they have a firm grasp on the idea
of the simple family of numbers. Once a child masters the stamp game, they move
on to use the material called the bead frame. It teaches addition, subtraction,
and multiplication.
Much more
Simple
mathematics isn’t the only thing that Montessori students learn. They also
explore the basics of geometry and fractions at an early age. Primary children
can learn the names of geometric shapes. They can easily identify cubes,
spheres, square-based pyramids, rectangular prisms, ellipsoids, and much more.
As they move into elementary, they learn more about the range of concepts,
including the studies of polygons, triangles, angles, and more.
Resource:
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