Just as the Montessori classroom allows ample practice for the physical skills children will need to master holding a pencil, we also…
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Math and the Adolescent
Montessori adolescent environments are strikingly distinct from traditional Middle Schools. While traditional classrooms may be doubling…
Math and the Elementary Mind
If you think of the window of development between birth and age six as marked by the construction of labels for files in a cognitive file…
Math and Early Childhood
The Math materials are an essential part of the Early Childhood classroom, designed to respond to what we understand about development at…
Math and the Infant/Toddler
You may have noticed the beautiful Math materials in Montessori early childhood and elementary classrooms. Enticing and elegant, a few…
The Number Rods
Look familiar? They should. The Number Rods follow almost the same initial presentation as the Red Rods, a perennial favorite in the…
Movement in the Third Plane
Montessori was deeply concerned with the nature of development in adolescence, and the disparity between the expectations of formal…
Movement in the Second Plane
Remember what distinguishes the Second Plane of Development, that window from six to twelve years old. Moving out of the “construction of…
Movement in the First Plane
A core tenet of Montessori is that children are free to move. We understand that the child’s developing mind is influenced by their…
The Sensitive Periods: Movement
Montessori identified a number of “Sensitive Periods,” times when children’s development motivated them toward an interest in particular…