Instructions to the Square Root Board

The square root board shows in a simple way the essence of squaring a number and calculating a square root. For both operations, children should already have multiplication experience. Performing square roots becomes very easy with the board, because one can see that is it the opposite of squaring. In order to square a number, [...]

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Tutoring with Hands-on Materials in the S.F. Bay Area

Dear Parents and Teachers, I hope your summer was beautiful! Now that school is back in session, I would like to let you know that I am available to tutor elementary and middle school children in math, reading and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Math lessons are based on Montessori hands-on learning materials, [...]

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Multiplication with children

Learning basic math becomes easy when we understand why it might be useful in real life! Multiplication is really an expanded form of addition. We need it when we want to add several things of the same value. This can be communicated to children in informal ways: It is needed in daily life, for example [...]

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ENJOYING MATH: How Can Children Learn Math with Joy and Ease?

Translation of the April guest-post at Sybille Tezzele-Kramer’s Blog buntglas, originally in German and Italian “Wie findet mein Kind den Zugang und die Freude zur Mathematik? In traditional schools math lessons can be confusing and scary for many children, and exhausting for teachers. Many grown-ups and elderly people remember their math lessons from childhood with [...]

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Math can be fun!…with hands-on learning materials!

Get inspired!! Math teacher, tutors and parents can make lessons way more interesting and accessible with hands-on learning materials. Children love to play and learn with the materials also after the lesson, in self-directed ways. To see, touch and play with the ‘Times Tables’: The Decanom, developed by Dr.Maria Montessori Learning decimals with REAL money!! [...]

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