Hands-On, Montessori Inspired Advanced Math Level B (for 1st/2nd Grades) Using Manipulatives

Students will delve deeply into number sense in a hands-on way using physical or printable Montessori manipulatives, creating a firm mathematical foundation from numbers 11 to 9,999.  Each class begins with a routine-oriented calendar time to help build number fluency, confidence, and class relationships.   Fun games, songs, and mathematical conversations help engage students and give them a natural way to apply concepts.  We work with place value, addition and subtraction with and without regrouping (static and dynamic addition), skip counting, patterns, fractions, telling time, money, data and graphing, probability, basic and advanced multiplication, division, geometry, and measurement.  Students need to have the actual manipulatives with them (or a printable version) as we work through these together.  There is a second camera used in class to show the teacher's table so that the students are guided through problems step by step, working toward independence.  This class can be used as review of first grade math or for a first or second grade math class.  Each week of class is unique and students may stay all year or come in for the week they need.  

This schedule may be adapted to meet specific learner needs:

Week of July 4th:
Making teen numbers with seguin boards and Montessori beads

Week of July 11th:
Exploring with a 20 frame and adding to create teen numbers on a 20 frame

Week of July 18th:
Using story problems to add numbers on a 20 frame

Week of July 25th:
Using seguin boards to make larger numbers to 99 and finding larger numbers on a 100s chart