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Mathematics
Montessori Practice10–20 minindoor

Exploring Golden Beads

Feel quantity as a physical amount before it becomes a written numeral.

A child arranging golden bead quantities from a unit to a thousand cube.
  1. Child holding golden bead units, tens and hundreds.

    Step 1 · touch

    Hold a unit, a ten-bar, a hundred-square.

  2. Child counting beads aloud one by one.

    Step 2 · count

    Count each quantity aloud before naming it.

  3. Bead quantity placed beside its matching numeral card.

    Step 3 · match

    Match the quantity to its printed numeral card.

Materials

  • Golden Beads

What you might observe

  • · Quantity-to-numeral matching
  • · Comfort with place value
  • · Confident counting sequence