Honestly, I made these homemade number cards out of necessity, not because they're any fun by themselves. Sometimes it's hard for kindergarteners to remember the numbers that don't make any sense. Like why is 11 called eleven and not one-teen? Similarly hard numbers are 12, 13, 15, and 20. I believe ...
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Montessori Paper Seguin Boards
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This is another really clever concept from the book Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years (Affiliate Link) that teaches number sequencing. I love that it's a hands on way for a child to learn their "teens" and how to count by tens to one hundred. Ideally, this would be made out of wood, ...
Montessori Number Symbol Cards
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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
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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
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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 ...
Homemade Treasure Map Game
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I've always thought it would be a fun to make a treasure map for my preschooler. What actually motivated me to do it now was that I know a kindergartener who is having a hard time remembering how to identify certain numbers (like 11, 12, and 13). I wanted to come up with a fun way for him to be ...
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