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[Montessori Questions answered]- Sensorial age

September 06th, 2007 | Category: Kids & Teens

August 17, 2004 — ?What did Dr. Montessori do with new students when they were past the sensorial age? Did she start from the beginning or skip the sensorial education??

Dr. Montessori writes in ?The Advanced Montessori
Method, Volume 1? that she had a 5 year old boy who
started in her class several years later than her
other students. What she noticed is that this child
participated in classroom activities at his particular
level of development. In this case, he did the number
rods first, however, Montessori observed that the
student then did the red rods, brown stair and pink
tower. She noted that older children did work on the
sensorial material, only in an inverse order to the
normal pattern.
I found this to be true when I had older children join
the classroom. They worked at their level in the beginning,
but later on worked backwards with the sensorial
and practical life activities.

?How does the child progress in mathematics from
concrete to abstract??

Concrete math uses apparatus or manipulatives to teach
math in a sensory way. Differentiating between large
and small objects, sorting from small to large and
large to small, learning about patterns and sequence,
geometric shapes, counting, and so on are learned at
the concrete level. The sensorial equipment also leads
to concrete math apparatus, such as the number rods,
spindle
boxes, and numerals and counters. The Golden Bead Material-
http://www.wiki.montessorimom.com/index.cgi/Golden_20Bead_20Material
is then introduced to bridge the concrete level of
math to the abstract level math.

After going through this concrete process,
a child starts to do mental math. Some
children may be able to apply what they have learned
to other problem solving situations as well.
They can add numbers in their head, understand the
basic concepts of math; they understand that
numerals represent quantities.

If a child is given concrete math readiness materials during the sensitive preschool years,
the ability for math abstraction is even greater when a child starts to think at this higher level.
This abstract age often begins around the age of 6.

Here are some math concepts children can do when they can abstract:
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Ratios
Negative Numbers

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