Montessori First Great Lesson - How the Earth and Universe Came to Be
Montessori Second Great Lesson - How Life Came to Be
Montessori Third Great Lesson - How Humans Came to Be
Montessori Fourth Great Lesson - How Writing Came to Be
The Fifth Great Lesson topic is the Story of Numbers.
week 1
recall the story of written language
read The History of Counting by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
through page 26
do activities with Ancient Egyptian numerals:
- pages 13 & 14 from Looking into Math, book 3
week 2
read remainder of The History of Counting
do activities with Ancient Roman numerals:
- Roman Numerals PDF
box of Wooden Roman Numerals from Hello Wood
I also like the History of Mathematics Card Set from Clocca Concepts and the Hundred Board with Roman Numerals and Control Chart from Nienhuis.
The student who I was working on finishing this series with unexpectedly moved to Nevada... so we didn't get to do very much with the Story of Numbers besides a quick overview. There are a lot of great books for this topic, and fun directions to take it in. Here are some that I recommend:
The Time Book: A Brief History from Lunar Calendars to Atomic Clocks
by Martin Jenkins
The Story of Clocks and Calenars
by Betsy Maestro
Twelve Years, Twelve Animals: A Japanese Folktale
by Yoshiko Samuel
The Story of Money
by Betsy Maestro
Ideas About Choosing
by John Maher and S. Stowell Symmes
How We Learned the Earth is Round
by Patricia Lauber
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
by Kathryn Lasky
Mathematicians are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 1
by Luetta & Wilbert Reimer
- Thales
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Hypatia
John Napier
Galileo Galilei
Blaise Pascal
Isaac Newton
Leonhard Euler
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Sophie Germain
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Evariste Galois
Emmy Noether
Srinivasa Ramunujan
Mathematicians are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 2 
by Luetta & Wilbert Reimer
- Euclid
Omar Khayyam
Leonard of Pisa (Fibonacci)
Girolamo Cardano
Rene Descartes
Pierre de Fermat
Maria Agnesi
Benjamin Banneker
Charles Babbage
Mary Somerville
Neils Abel
Ada Lovelace
Sonya Kovalevsky
Albert Einstein
George Polya
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
by Laurie Wallmark
Agnesi to Zeno: Over 100 Vignettes from the History of Math
by Sanderson Smith
Math and Science Across Cultures: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium
by Maurice Bazin, et al.
The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
by Malba Tahan
You Can Count on Monsters: The First 100 Numbers and Their Characters
by Richard Evan Schwartz (see the poster of 1 through 100, factored)
Really Big Numbers
by Richard Evan Schwartz
A Million Dots
by Andrew Clements
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars
by Seth Fishman
One Grain of Rice
by Demi
The Lion's Share
by Matthew McElligott
We also weren't able to do the Montessori Sixth Great Lesson which is called "The Great River" and is a wonderful analogy to introduce the complex inner workings of the human body. ETC Montessori sells the story and all of the classroom materials for it; the links to them and a PDF with all of the science experiments we did for each system of the human body are all on my Human Physiology page on my website. Let me know if you have any questions!
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