Below is a picture of the Montessori Primary Preschool Mathematics materials: number rods, sandpaper numerals, spindle boxes, short bead stair, numbers and counters, and skittles -working with fractions. In the preschool level, the children combine the material, separate it, share it, count it and compare it, as they demonstrate to themselves the basic operation of mathematics.
In our Montessori Primary Kindergarten Mathematics program, there are many Montessori materials that can be used for the mathematical operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The children of Coleman Montessori Center learn their operational facts by performing the operations with concrete materials.
In the mathematics center, children begin by learning the concept of quantities 1-10 with the number rods as shown below.
One of our students is working with the sandpaper numerals. She is learning the names of the numerals 0-9 by recognizing their written form.
The student below is working with the golden bead system on quantities 11-19. The teen boards show the student how to form the numerals 11-19.
The students are exploring the concept of fractions (a whole, 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4).
Hands-on learning of the concept of Addition.
Below the student is working with the larger numeral cards and quanitites of the decimal system (100, 200, 300, 400-900).
Hands-on learning of the concept of multiplication.
