Introduction to Decimal System Beads

DESCRIPTION: Introduction to Decimal System Beads is a wooden Tray with four shelf having 1 cube of 1000 beads, 1 square plate of hundred beads, 1 bead bar of 10 and 1 loose bead.These activities introduce the child to the function of our base-ten number system and the four operations: addition, subtractions, multiplication, and division. As with all of the Montessori math materials, these lessons are introduced using hands-on materials. We use the golden bead material to introduce one unit, one ten, one hundred, and one thousand, and allow the child to see and feel the relative difference between the quantities. We then introduce the numeric symbols using the decimal system cards.

OBJECTIVE: Introduction to Decimal system.