I LOVE Montessori teaching tools, especially for math. They're so hands-on and they make learning so intuitive. My 6-year-old uses our homemade "golden" beads all the time. I feel like those beads combined with our number symbol cards are going to get us pretty far. However, constructing that set of ...
Addition & Subtraction
Addition Strip Board
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!Who doesn't love the Montessori, hands-on, self-correcting style of learning? It seems like most kids learn best when they get to move pieces around with their hands to understand how things work rather than have someone verbally explain a concept to them. I created this addition strip board and the ...
Raffle Ticket Egg Hunt
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!My kids love doing Easter egg hunts at Easter so much that we sort of do them all year round, particularly in the months leading up to and following Easter. However, what I don't like about Easter egg hunts is that we used to always fill the eggs with food. Since we do them so frequently, I'd moved ...
Montessori Number Symbol Cards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!I read about this style of number cards in the book, Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years (Affiliate Link), and thought it was a really clever idea. Basically you just stack the cards on top of each other to make any number with each card representing either the thousands, hundreds, ...
Montessori Colored Bead Stair
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!I decided to make the Montessori colored bead stair after I had already made my own imitation "golden" (actually white) beads. So far, the colored beads representing each number between 1 and 9 are not actually necessary, since the child can just count out the appropriate number of single golden ...
Montessori Golden Beads
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!Being such a huge nerd, when I saw the golden bead material at my son's Montessori school, I immediately wanted my own. They seemed like such a great way to visualize what numbers actually mean. I know they will be extremely useful when my kids are learning more complicated math. However, even now ...