I love Montessori math materials. They are so engaging and well thought of that the child can easily absorb concepts and retain what is learned. Take for example this Number Rods which I recently introduced to Vito. We are mostly using counters in our math activities, it’s more abstract and quantitative. With Number Rods, counting here is more linear and sequential. My goal was for Vito to learn:
I am so excited to share with you the fun preschool math activities I prepared for Vito! He saw me printing these materials and he kept on asking if we can play. Of course we did! We started using a few of these materials and will share his progress in the days to come. For now, allow me to present to you our adorable and cute learning materials for the month of October.
Vito is 34 months.
“Cards and Counters” is a Montessori math activity that introduces the child to the units of quantity. This is to reinforce the sequence in numbers (one to ten) and to give the child a visual experience of quantity.
Vito loves to count. He counts pictures, objects and anything that interests him. So for his preschool math, I decided to give him a jumpstart on cards and counters. Take a look at the different ways we explore counting using Autumn-themed objects.
This week, Vito and I are exploring beginning letter sounds through objects we can find at home. This is very similar to the Alphabet Sort Montessori Inspired activity, but in our case we are not sorting the objects yet. What Vito and I are doing is to just name or identify the objects and match them to our control sheet.
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Enjoy!
To those who are interested, I recorded Mavi’s work a few weeks ago on Montessori multiplication using the bead board. We do it occasionally for practice. Whenever he does the bead board, he followed this work with multiplication using the bead bars. Please use the video below as your reference in case you wanted to try this at home.
Our next math adventure would be all about clocks and I made these materials for Mavi. You can have your own copy too! Visit our shop and choose any of these.
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Spring break has given us enough time to work on our multiplication. The next thing we did after introducing multiplication using counters was doing the arithmetic using multiplication bead board.
To know more about these materials and how to use it, here are some resources I collected for you:
I made multiplication strips for Mavi to work on. This is similar to the one mentioned in my resources except that I edited the fonts to fit my paper size.
I followed the presentation based on the Info Montessori and demonstrated it on Mavi. When it’s his time to do the work, Mavi chose the table of 6 (his age!). He loved putting the beads in the hole, though at times, it slips through his fingers as they seem to be tiny. How I wish the beads were a bit bigger! As he worked on the table, I told him to mark the last count of the beads so he wouldn’t need to count from 1 again. Say, he’s currently at 6 x 4 = 24. So that’s 24 beads already. Moving to 6 x 5, he doesn’t have to count all over again from the first bead. All he has to do is add 6 to the last count or mark, that is 24. Bless his heart, he was counting from 1 everytime he moves on to the next multiplier LOL.
Again, I pointed out that multiplication is adding similar numbers. So adding a multiplicand to the last count is a much faster way of doing it.
Now, for the work strips, I printed them out and glue them on a yellow cardstock. Mavi loved how beautiful they turned out. 
Don’t forget to pin this for later! You don’t want to miss this! 
And that’s about it! How wonderful this method of learning is! So hands-on and visual! We will work on the rest of the multiplication table both in bead board and decanomial beads one at a time. Anyway, this is just to expose Mavi to multiplication. Once we’re done with all the tables, we’ll start division and it’s going to be even more exciting!
Want to see what other’s are doing? Check out my Pinterest board for other Math ideas!
Our dynamic addition starts with a brief discussion of what makes a 10 using a unit (1’s), 100 using 10’s and a 1000 using 100’s. This is a visual presentation of smaller units that we can group together to form a bigger units. From here, I told Mavi that whenever he encounters this when he plays Stamp Game, all he needed to do was to “substitute” the group with a bigger value.
The concept of dynamic addition in Montessori is the same whether you use golden beads, stamp game or bead frame. Here’s how we do it:
Note: Mavi has memorized a lot of number pair in addition. Most of the time he doesn’t use the stamps or beads, he automatically do the addition work. Sometimes he would start on the thousands going down to the units. I have to explain that he always need to start from the smallest unit. This is because he will produce an incorrect sum once the equation is dynamic. That is the number changes (addends) because of the regrouping. And he understood this somehow when finished a few equation strips.
Well, that’s all for dynamic addition for now. This is just an introductory to my 6 years old. We’ll practice more of this next year.
