Description

The Toddler Brown Stair, is also known as the Toddler Broad Stair.  This sensorial activity consists of a series of prisms that develop visual discrimination of size, in width or breadth, while the length remains constant.  This sensorial activity is based upon the Brown Stair, and is an excellent way to introduce toddlers to the concept of area and volume.

Children do not even realise that they are learning the basic concepts of geometry; they just know that they are having fun and experimenting with shapes.  Toddlers have an instinctive need to bring order out of a jumble of prisms, all the same length but different in width.  They love to sort them by sight, touch and weight.

Features of the Toddler Brown Stair

• the direct objective for the child:
  • to build the stair from the broadest prism to the narrowest prism, from left to right
• indirectly, the child learns:
  • focus, concentration and gains self-esteem
  • to introduce the sensorial concept of shape, dimension and size through visual perception
  • to prepare the Child for mathematics by comparison, grading and seriation with prisms
• perfect in size; each prism is 2cm / (¾”) larger, in all dimensions, than the other
• 5 prisms in total, the smallest being 2cm³ / (¾”³) to the largest being 10cm³ / (4″³)
• manufactured from solid beechwood, lacquered in the traditional Montessori brown colour
• beautifully finished with smoothed edges

Size

Length – 30cm / (11¾”)

Related Products

• Toddler Pink Tower
• The Brown Stair
• The Brown Stair Cards
• Box with Prisms for the Brown Stair

Further Reading and Resources