Fundamental Abilities
This fundamental ability enables the child to understand hierarchies.
What is constructing and comparing a series
This group of math presentations neatly navigates the problem of understanding quantity that many schools struggle to solve.
What is Numbers 1-10
This exercise introduces the category of 10,000
What is the dot game
This fundamental principle of a Montessori environment lays the foundation for sequencing in mathematics.
Pouring grain, pouring water, baking, sewing an outline support this human tendency.
what is exactness
This fundamental ability supports the child when she progresses from the large bead frame to the racks and tubes.
What is recognizing similarities and differences
This material introduces the concept of quantity
What are the number rods
This material offers the child a symbolic exploration of the four basic operations
What is the stamp game
Practice estimating relative quantities in the area of practical life supports this natural tendency.
What is mathematical thinking
This method of giving language supports understanding terminology.
what is the three period lesson
This fundamental ability allows the child to distinguish the value of different colored beads in racks and tubes
What is discrimination
What are sandpaper numerals or cyphers
This material offers a proportionate representation of the categories of numbers in the decimal system
What are the golden beads
This human tendency is supported by material representations, which allow children to initially work with concepts physically, gaining a full internal understanding.
What is abstraction
Learning that, for example, synonyms are a set of words that relate differently than antonyms supports the child in this fundamental ability.
What is finding relationships
This fundamental ability helps children know they can check quotients using multiplication
What is finding relationships
This material unites the concept of quantity with the symbols
What are spindle boxes
This exercise relies on the child's capacity to abstract math concepts and empowers her to decide what tools best serve her in solving a problem
What are word problems
Freedom to repeat allows children to strive for this human tendency.
These aspects of practical life exercises indirectly support the child's sensitive period for order, in turn supporting their work with the decimal system.
what is cycle of work, specific materials, and steps in specific sequence
This fundamental ability allows children to grasp the meaning of subtrahend, multiplicand, minuend and many more
This collective activity exercises the child's ability to abstract the concept of quantity
What is the memory game of numbers
Children work with large numbers in the children's house for this reason.
What is renewed interest
These four natural tendencies support the child in the area of math.
What are order, exactness, abstraction and the mathematical mind.
These types of sensorial activities support recognizing similarities and differences and creating and comparing series.
What is matching and grading