Wooden Hierarchical Material - Montessori Teacher Training

Materials

One piece of each of the following:

Unit – a green cube 5mm x 5mm x 5mm
Ten – blue prism with green divisions 5mm x 5mm x 5mm
Hundred – red prism with blue divisions 5cm x 5cm x 5cm
Thousand – green cube with red divisions 5cm x 5cm x 5cm
Ten Thousand – blue prism with green divisions 5cm x 5cm x 5cm
Hundred thousand – red prism with blue divisions 50cm x 50cm x 50cm
Million – green cube with red divisions 50cm x 50cm x 50cm

A set of prepared cards with notation from 1 to 1,000,000

Presentation

Have the kid unroll big mats.
Help the kid to carry over the cloth and lie it at the mat from smallest to biggest.
Have the kid carry over the Introductory Tray of Beads and area it subsequent to the tray of cloth a – d (from cloth listing)
Compare the gold unit to the green unit, the gold ten with the blue ten, the gold rectangular with the red square and the gold dice with the green dice.
Have the kid update the Introductory tray at the shelf.
Do a Three Period Lesson with the brand new cloth.
Introduce cloth e – g (from the listing above).
Name them and provide an explanation for that they constitute ten-thousand, hundred thousand and million.
Do a Three Period Lesson with all the cloth.
Once the kid is snug with all the new cloth and their names, display the kid the playing cards for 1 – 1000.
Show the kid one card at a time and feature him deliver the names of each.
Show the kid the brand new playing cards, one at a time.
For 10,000 cowl the ten and feature the kid depend what number of zeros there are. Say, “due to the fact there are three zeros, it’s far going to be a thousand.”
Uncover the ten and cowl the 000.
Show the kid that that is ten in order that makes the quantity ten-thousand.
Repeat with inside the identical way for hundred thousand.
When you display the million card, deliver the call and feature the kid depend the quantity of zeros which might be in a million.
Place the cards in numerical order from biggest to smallest in a vertical line at the proper facet of the mat.
Have the kid blend all the cloth and factor to the cloth randomly, ask the kid what it’s far, and feature him area the corresponding card in the front of the piece of cloth.
Tell the kid that you’ll now rearrange the cloth.
Place all the green materials in a vertical line, all of the red material in a vertical line and so forth for all the material
Look on the distinction of every with the kid. (This will deliver the kid a Sensorial impact of the awesome distinction of length from the million to the thousand to the unit and so forth for every category.)
Rearrange the material lower back into order from million to unit. Have the kid vicinity the corresponding card to each.
Point to the unit, ten, and hundred.
Say, “This is the unit, ten, and hundred of easy numbers.”
Point to the thousand, ten-thousand, and hundred-thousand. Say, “This is the thousands.”
Point to the million and say, “This is the easy unit of millions.”
Do a Three Period Lesson with the names of the groups.
Superimpose all the playing cards and examine the number: 1,111,111 Have the kid update the fabric from the million to the 10,000.
Have him vicinity the unit to the thousand at the tray.