Maria Montessori has developed specific methods and materials to help children learn math, count and perform the operations of addition and subtraction, division and multiplication. Let's learn how to build Montessori boards to learn math.
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Maria Montessori has developed specific methods and materials to help children ad learn math, to count and to perform the operations of addition and subtraction, division and multiplication. Let's learn how to build Montessori boards to learn math.
Il Montessori method to learn math is really very practical. In fact, it is based on tables to learn to count and to do additions, multiplications and divisions using very simple materials that help children to approaching mathematics in a playful way.
The use of Montessori boards to learn mathematics it is recommended for both parents and teachers and support teachers. In fact, Montessori boards are suitable for everyone, even for those children who have learning difficulties in mathematics. Here are many useful information to learn how to build tables for mathematical activities according to the Montessori method.
Séguin's Montessori Boards
Le Séguin boards help children to learn numbers and introduce them to addition. They are part of the teaching materials of the Montessori method. We can find for sale the Sèguin boards as wooden tablets on which numbers are printed. However, these are somewhat expensive materials.
The alternative to save is to make do-it-yourself Séguin boards from very simple starting materials such as plywood, paper and sturdy cardstock. THU e Thu find a tutorial useful for making Séguin's tables easily and at a very low cost, including the images to print and cut out to obtain the numbers to apply on your tablets. THU find another very interesting idea that associates with the basic Séguin tables beads which help to learn to count.
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The Montessori tables of addition and subtraction
In the Montessori method, special ones are used boards with rods to learn addition and subtraction. You can print or create on the computer the tables for the addition and for the subtraction and then cut out from a sheet of plywood the sticks that will be used by the children to make the most of these tables which are very useful for learning to count.
As an alternative to plywood rods, you can make paper sticks printing them on blue and red sheets. THU find the instructions to make the table of addition and subtraction with plywood. THU here is the material to print to create a table of addition and subtraction in a simple way by following the instructions of the blog La Casa di Serendippo.
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The Montessori tables of multiplication and division
Le multiplication and division tables designed by Maria Montessori, they help children learn to do calculations even in those situations where there are some learning difficulties in mathematics.
The multiplication and division boards consist of a wooden board with 100 cavities in 10 rows of 10 with numbers printed on the top and left side of the board. To use these boards you also need beads and gods tags with numbers, as you can see here.
Those who prefer to build their own Montessori materials can refer to aalternative fai-da-te to make Montessori boards for multiplication and division with materials such as beads and bottle caps recovery. You will need 100 beads, 100 plastic caps and a cardboard base, as suggested by La Scuola in the Attic. THU il tutorial to follow to build the table and to learn times tables, multiplications and divisions with the Montessori method.
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Here is a video di Florence auxiliary library which shows the use of the division table designed by Maria Montessori for learning division in small children even with particular learning difficulties in calculus.
Table of the division of small numbers by M. Montessori from CRED Ausilioteca on Vimeo.
Marta Albè
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