Description

Children love colours and find the bead stairs fascinating.  Maria Montessori designed these stairs specifically, to be attractive to children and to encourage them to work with the stairs.  The numbers from 1 to 9, are each a separate bar, with a distinctive colour.  The colours are important, helping the Child to recall that specific number, at a glance.  Also known as the Short Bead Stair Activity, the Coloured Bead Stair Activity Set provides additional exercises for the Child to practice, starting from the most basic, and building to more complex equations.

Features of the Coloured Bead Stair Activity Set

• the direct objective of this material:
  • to offer children further experience as they learn how to count
  • introduce the Child to more complex equations using the <, > or = signs
• indirectly the Child begins to
  • learn to work independently with perseverance
  • improves their focus and concentration
  • transition from the concrete to the abstract as they learn to write down the symbol that answers the equations
  • helps develop writing skills
• aligned to the Montessori mathematics curriculum

Contents of the Coloured Bead Stair Activity Set

• total of 55 question cards
• 4 sections of equations, separated with a divider card indicating the number of cards each section holds and the type of questions requiring to be answered.
  • 19 cards: basic questions requiring the Child to build coloured bead stairs randomly and number recollection
  • 18 cards: basic questions requiring the Child to build coloured bead stairs in order using number recollection
  • 9 cards: test the children’s knowledge of the bead bars, (colours vs numbers)
  • 9 cards: answer questions based on <, > or = signs.
  • the equations for section 3 & 4, are self-correcting, as the answers are on the back of each card
• sold with an acrylic stand, which the Child can access easily from the shelf – 13 cm x 10.5 cm x 7.5 cm / (5″ x 4″ x 3″)

Related Products

• The Coloured Bead Stair
• Hanger for Coloured Bead Stair
• Single Bead Stair Tray
• Double Bead Stair Tray

Further Resources and Reading