These Montessori counters are an essential material for many activities: counting, sorting, seriation, language games, and more. They allow the child to handle quantities and abstract concepts, thus promoting active learning and independence.
These Montessori counters are ideal for the introduction to mathematics: counting, addition, subtraction, and understanding the decimal system. A concrete material for learning quantities.
PRESENTATION OF THE MATERIAL:
1 tray made up of two compartments containing on one side red numerals from 1 to 10 and on the other 55 red counters.
Example of a practical exercise:
Fetch the material from the shelf with the child
Sit down with the child at a table. Ask him to take out all the numerals and build the sequence from 1 to 10
Ask him to place under each numeral the corresponding number of counters, having started yourself: up to three or four for example. Each time the child places a counter, make sure he counts out loud
Once he has finished, tell him you are going to show him something: that you can pass your finger between the counters that are an even number but that you cannot pass your finger between the counters that are an odd number. Pass your finger between the even counters and push them up each time. Say the sequence of even numbers out loud 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and have the child say them. "These are the even numbers". Say the sequence of odd numbers out loud: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 then have the child say them. "These are the odd numbers".
Do a three-period lesson: ask the child to show you an even number then an odd number then point to a numeral and ask him whether it is even or odd.
These Montessori counters are an essential material for many activities: counting, sorting, seriation, language games, and more. They allow the child to handle quantities and abstract concepts, thus promoting active learning and independence.