MATERIAL:MATERIAL:
PURPOSE:
AGE:
EXERCISE:
The boards are arranged on the floor
mat. The teacher and child are next to each other, facing the
boards. The teacher puts a ten bar to the right of the first 10
on the board. On the right of the ten bar the teacher puts the
colored "1" bead bar. She says, "Ten and one are eleven."
She gets the child to count the beads. The teacher takes the
numeral "1". She slips it over the zero of the first 10 on the
board saying, "Ten and one are eleven. This is the way we write
11." The teacher asks the child to put a ten bar next to the
second 10 on the board. When she has done so, she asks him to put
the colored "2" bead bar to the right of the 10 to make 12. When
she has done this, she gets him to count the bead bars to 12. She
then asks him to make the numeral 12. He does this by slipping
"2" over the zero of the second 10 on the board. The child is
helped to build first the quantities and then the numerals in sequence
to 12.
As soon as the child has understood the
exercise the teacher leaves him to work alone. The child counts each
quantity after se has made it. The material is always available
for the child to use whenever he likes.