How can Montessori Mathematics play an important role towards building a child’s analytical mind equipped for education in 21st

Century

Poor thinking skills in schools today

Mathematical mind

Three important principles that are essential for mathematical understanding are:

Other important fundamental mathematical concepts include:

Mathematical

preparationPractical Life Activities

Conservation,

Reversibility• Pouring liquids / solids between different or the

same size containers

• Spooning between different size containers

One to one

correspondence• Matching/ pairing lids to jars or boxes

• Setting a table

• Planting seeds, one per pot

Volume, mass,

measurementCooking, weighing out ingredients

Pattern,

symmetryPaper cutting

Geometry,

fractions (½, ¼)Napkin folding

Laying the foundation for the future

The child perceives, without

conscious ,reasoning,

patterns of relationships:

Sensorial material

She never learns a name that doesn’t have a meaning. e.g. the number cards are only introduced after the child has worked with the number rods.

Numeration 1-10

Number Rods

Sandpaper numerals

Rods & Cards

Spindle Boxes

Cards & Counters

1 Golden Bead is a

unit (point)

10 Golden Beads

make a ‘bar of ten’

10 ‘bars of ten’ make

a ‘hundred square’

10 ‘hundred squares’

make a ‘thousand

cube’

children who could count to ten could just as easily count to 6,452 using, for example, six 1000 cubes, four 100 squares, five tens, and two ones.

The Montessori materials not

only enables a child to see

the symbol for 1 or 1000, but

also allows him to hold the

corresponding quantities in

his hand.