Montessori Practice10–20 minindoor
Exploring Golden Beads
Feel quantity as a physical amount before it becomes a written numeral.

Step 1 · touch
Hold a unit, a ten-bar, a hundred-square.
Step 2 · count
Count each quantity aloud before naming it.
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