Math Assessment

Question 1

What does Practical Life teach/prepare?

Answer 1

Practical life teaches the children OCCI (order, coordination, concentration, independence) and is a base for all other areas in the classroom.

Question 2

What does Sensorial teach/prepare?

Answer 2

Sensorial will prepare the children for the quality of the material/ teach them through their senses while teaching them shapes and sizes. That will later move on to math and teach them quanitity.

Question 3

Operation Sequence

Answer 3

AMSD (Addition, Multiplication, Subtraction, Division)

Question 4

Rationale for the operation sequence

Answer 4

Math curriculum moves from concrete to abstract, children will manipulate materials with small numbers before moving on to memorization of math facts.

Question 5

Sandpaper Numerals/Describe

Answer 5

They teach the numbers 0-9 and also 10 by putting one and zero down in the middle of the rug. The sandpaper allows the children to feel it while its presented.

Question 6

Cards and Counters/Describe

Answer 6

Cards and Counters teacher the children odds and evens. When placing the cards if the counters have a pair it is an even number. If the counter does not have a pair it is an odd number.

Question 7

What did Dr.Montessori say about children and peace? How does this fit into the practical life curriculum?

Answer 7

Teaching children to respect all living and nonliving things. Teaching them peaceful conflict resolution. Practical life teaches the children to be respectful of their environment.

Question 8

1sr Intro to the decimal system

Answer 8

This teaches the children place of value (Units, tens, hundreds, and thousands) with the materials. Then remove the numerals that will show one unit bead is one. The ten bar is ten.

Question 9

9 Tray

Answer 9

This material includes 9 units. 9 ten bars, 9 hundred squares, and 9 thousand cubes. This also includes number cards for each. (quantity and material)

Question 10

100 board

Answer 10

Teaches children about linear counting 1-100, they will look for the number that comes next. (Child has already had the ten board presentation) so children will have to look for 35 after 34 and so on and so fourth.

Question 11

Stamp Game

Answer 11

Montessori is an activity of color-coded tiles and skittles that are designed to represent quantities and teach children mathematic operations in a more abstract way. The stamp game breaks numerals up into single digits, tens, hundreds, and thousands. It consists of colored-coded tiles and skittles that represent quantities.

Question 12

Why is it not necessary to create or add any addition materials to the Montessori math curriculum.

Answer 12

The math curriculum has an order in the way it needs to be taught. Once a child’s understands the concept of a material we move on. Each material has a purpose that there is no need for any additional material.

Question 13

List advanced math materials

Answer 13

Fraction Skittles. fraction insets and dot game.

Question 14

Why are the fraction skittles considered advanced?

Answer 14

This teaches elementary children that we can divide a number in half, 3rd, 4th, and 5th equal parts.

Question 15

Why is the dot game considered advanced?

Answer 15

The dot game is also used in elemtary for them to be able to compose a number using the color coding for units, tens, hundreds, and thousands.

Question 16

Why are the fraction insets considered advanced?

Answer 16

The Fraction Insets material is a basic introduction to the concept of fractions. The set includes ten green metal frames with red fractions from the whole to tenths.

Question 17

Describe and explain the rationale for the color coding used in the decimal system materials.

Answer 17

The rationale for the color doing in the decimal system is that it teaches the place value for each decimal system. Green represents a single symbol, blue represents a ten-place value, red is for the hundred. and green is a whole thousand. So children are able to see the difference in place value, also when creating a whole number.

Question 18

Explain the concept of materialized abstraction and how it related to the materials in the classroom.

Answer 18

A child learns many, many concepts through using various materials. Montessori used the term, ‘materialized abstraction’ to refer to concrete materials which express an abstract concept. This concrete material allows a child to manipulate and repeat work with abstract concepts.