Mathematical instruments used in Montessori schools.

Montessori schools help in the all round development of a child.  They do it through various fun loving activities which help in the development of a child. This involves a lot of step by step processes which are followed in the Montessori schools for the betterment of the children. Some of them are discussed below.

Montessori 9 Golden Bead hundred Squares also called the Montessori Golden Bead Hundred Square is a tray containing 1 golden bead unit, 1 golden ten bar, a golden hundred square, and 1 thousand cube.  The purpose of this is to understand the purpose of decimal system and to make the child familiar with the names and relative sizes of the categories and to help the child to make the differences in bulk.

Montessori 45 Golden bead Bars of 10 consist of golden bead units, ten bars, hundred squares and thousand cubes. They play a very vital role in the understanding of the decimal system and to demonstrate the values of ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. Here beads are associated to numbers which helps in operating mathematical calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. So, Montessori 45 Golden Bead Bars of 10 with Box is very helpful for children.

Montessori 100 Golden Bead Units w/ Box and Montessori 9 Golden Unit Beads w/ Holder is generally used to introduce to the child the general concept of a decimal system. It is more or less same to the above mentioned procedures. This is for children between 4 to 4 ½ years of age.