MATHEMATICS

Maria Montessori believed that Mathematics should be considered as a special kind of language. It is very clear and concise that way of communicating with others in a particular area.
Dr. Montessori stated that man is born with a “Mathematical Mind.” She took the term from Pascal, the French philosopher and mathematician, who said that “man’s mind through certain tendencies and sensitive periods as well as through the fact that the young child needs to understand his/her environment in a logical manner. In order for humankind to develop and progress he/she must acquire the ability to discriminate in all areas.
Maria Montessori approached the introduction of mathematics in the same way as the other materials which she introduced to the children. She selected an abstraction i.e., number and turned it into something concrete, a “material abstraction “e.g., the Number Rods which the child worked with until he/she had grasped the concept and was able to use it.

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Bank Game

SKU

4.39.01

$41.40

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Power of 2 Cube

SKU

4.39.02

$35.10

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Power of 3 Cube

The Power of 3 Cube consists of a dissected cube in 13 pieces painted yellow, green and white.

Demonstrates the power of 3 by progressively tripling the previous piece, starting with a two centimeter cube. That cube is then triples with two similar cubes. Those three cubes are then tripled with two 6 x 2 x 2 centimeter prisms, eventually creating an 18 centimeter cube.

The wooden tray is included.

SKU

4.39.03

$80.10

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Algebraic Peg Board with Pegs

Algebraic Peg Board with Pegs is used for demonstrating the mechanism of finding the square root.

The whole set includes Wooden Algebraic Peg Board and plastic color-coded pegs and cups stored in a wooden box with lid.

SKU

4.39.04

$87.30

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Small Square Root Board with Beads

The Small Square Root Board is used by the children to build squares and to extract square roots. The wooden board contains 225 indentations for working square roots. Included with the board is a box of 100 each green, blue and red beads.

SKU

4.39.05

$39.60

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Square Root Charts

These Patterns serve as guides when extracting square root on the Algebraic Peg Board. The material consists of four plastic cards with silk-screened square root patterns in the three hierarchical colours. High quality!

SKU

4.39.06

$20.70

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Arithmetic Trinomial Cube

This cube represents the equation (a + b + c)³ in concrete form and differs from the Trinomial Cube in that the component pieces are color-coded to represent hierarchical values from 1 unit to 1 million.

This makes it possible for the child to equate an arithmetical value to each of the cubes and prisms.

SKU

4.39.07

$55.80

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Algebraic Binomial Cube

This Cube for (a + b)³ provides the basis necessary for the sensorial construction of higher powers of the same binomial:

(a + b)⁴and (a + b)⁵

SKU

4.39.07A

$39.60

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Elementary Negative Snake Game

SKU

4.39.08

$140.40

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Cubing Material

The Cubing Material is used to make cubes and discover relationships between their component parts.

Consists of 1 cube and 27 squares for each of the numbers from 1–9.

Includes a wooden tray with lid.

Ages: 9+

SKU

4.39.09

$558.00

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Multibase Material with Chart

Hierarchical and geometric representation of numbers in bases 2 and 3 for counting forwards and backwards, and for converting numbers from base 10 into these bases and vice versa.

Chart is included.

Ages: 9+

SKU

4.39.11

$234.00