Bridging exercise between the Presentation Tray and the Large Number Cards

This activity combines the Presentation Tray and the Large Number Cards. The directress shows the child how to carry the Presentation Tray with two hands to the table as well as the Large Number Cards.

The child matches the ‘concrete’ Presentation Tray which has one unit bead, one ten-bead bar, one-hundred bead square, and one-thousand bead cube, with the ‘abstract’ Large Number Cards which have the written numbers 1, 10, 100, and 1000.

The directress introduces the Presentation Tray to the child once again. Then the directress moves on to show the child the number one card and asks him if he remembers what number it is, the child will say “one”. The directress then places the card beneath the unit bead. She continues in the same manner with the tens, hundreds, and thousands.

What skills does the child acquire by doing this activity?

This activity gives the child further practice with recognizing one unit, one ten, one hundred and one thousand in a concrete and abstract form as well as it promotes the child’s visual discrimination.

Bridging exercise between the Presentation Tray and the Large Number Cards

Looking for more Montessori activities?

Here is a list of all the Montessori Maths activities including Early Maths, Introduction to the Decimal System, Seguin Boards, The Hundred Board, The Short Bead Stair, Bead Chains, The Snake Game, Group Operations, The Large Number Rods, Recording with the Small Number Rods, The Short Bead Stair, The Strip Boards, The Boards, The Stamp Game, The Abacus, The Dot Game, and Fractions. Just click on the page you want to learn about to go there.

Early Maths

Introduction to the Decimal System

The Short Bead Stair

The Short Bead Stair: orientation exercise

Seguin Boards

The Hundred Board

The Hundred Board

Bead Chains

The Snake Game

Group Operations

Large Number Rods

Recording with the Small Number Rods

Recording with the Small Number Rods