Switzerite: Library Workshop: Montessori Mathematics Materials Part II

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Library Workshop: Montessori Mathematics Materials Part II

I'm leading a workshop series at my local public library on progressive education. The sessions will take place on Tuesday evenings from October 3 to December 12 (not including Halloween).

Some of the sessions are on Montessori and some are on Waldorf. Here I will put a corresponding series of blog posts listing what materials I took with me, both to help out other people who may be leading similar workshops and to help me out if I do another set of workshops like these in the future!

Montessori Mathematics Materials Part II

This, the final workshop in my series of ten, was by far the simplest to set up.

This workshop included miscellanous math topics such as Fractions, Reading an Analog Clock, Algebra (coordinate graphing), and Geometry (area). I also brought materials for the Montessori Fifth Great Lesson, the Story of Numbers, which helps inspire children to choose different math lessons throughout the school year. This brought us full circle from the very first workshop in the series, the Montessori First Great Lesson. Here are photos of some of the materials, which I arranged along the long conference table.

from Nienhuis Montessori:

Cut-Out Labeled Fraction Circles

Fractions Activity Set 1

Checker Board Beads

Yellow Triangles for Area

from Great Extensions:

Bead Bar Stamps

Set of 10 Bead Bar Colored Pencils

Bead Bar Stamps Tray

from Hello Wood:

Montessori Teaching Clock

Arrows for the Teaching Clock

from Clocca Concepts:

Wooden Coordinate Graph Box

I also had some math supplies arranged among the books for the Fifth Great Lesson, including a material I made to help children understand the difference between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar (which involves 12 foot long finger knitted string circle and a pile of small white buttons), a clock rubber stamp and the Thermometer Stamp from Montessori Services.

The History of Counting
by Denise Schmandt-Besserat