Look familiar? They should. The Number Rods follow almost the same initial presentation as the Red Rods, a perennial favorite in the Montessori classroom. While the Red Rods demonstrate the concept of length, the Number Rods use that same structure to introduce the...
What do you think of when you hear a Montessori teacher describe, "hands-on, concrete manipulatives?" Maybe it's the building blocks we call the Pink Tower or the Broad Stair. Maybe it's the child-sized tools so abundant in Practical Life. Some are easy to imagine....
Math is a language of the spirit. Really. When Montessori acknowledged that the tendency toward the construction of the mathematical mind…
Montessori adolescent environments are strikingly distinct from traditional Middle Schools. While traditional classrooms may be doubling…
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…
The Math materials are an essential part of the Early Childhood classroom, designed to respond to what we understand about development at…
You may have noticed the beautiful Math materials in Montessori early childhood and elementary classrooms. Enticing and elegant, a few…
Look familiar? They should. The Number Rods follow almost the same initial presentation as the Red Rods, a perennial favorite in the…
You’ve probably enjoyed any number of geometric drawings your child has brought home from his or her use of the Metal Insets. The Metal…
As children develop through early childhood, they are increasingly able to understand abstract ideas. This seems simple to adults, but…