Hundred Board

The Hundred Board is a key Montessori Mathematics material in Montessori teachers training curriculum, which enables youngsters take the plunge from the popularity of numbers, to information how they belong in a sequence. As the call suggests, it focuses specially on numbers 1 – one hundred. The Hundred Board cloth consists of a blue wood board divided into one hundred squares, a manipulate card with the numbers 1 – one hundred revealed on it, and small variety tiles from 1 – one hundred which might be saved in a small wood box.

Purpose

Children start running with the Hundred Board after they have a clean knowledge of numbers 1 – 10 and 11 – 20. This is usually around 3 or 4 years of age, relying on how quick the kid has grasped the idea of counting. This cloth builds at the mathematical basis created with the aid of using in advance Montessori work, with the aid of using extending the kid’s know-how of numbers to 100, and additionally supporting them to recognize range order. Through their work, the kids are capable of accurate any errors independently, because the control card guides the activity.

Presentation 

• Invite the kid to paintings with you and manual them to the Mathematics curriculum area.
• Identify the Hundred Board, and convey the fabric to a piece station, putting it with inside the pinnacle proper corner.
• Sort the wide variety tiles into rows via way of means of the tens area (all the 10s in a single row, then the 20s and so on).
• They do now no longer should be in the precise numerical order inside their row.

• Once complete, become aware of the column of the smallest numbers, being 1 – 10.
• Begin to area the smallest row on the pinnacle of Hundred Board in numerical order.
• Ensure you figure from lowest to highest, from left to proper, and become aware of every wide variety aloud as you area it: “One, Two, Three” and so on.
• Use the manage card to manual your sequencing, via way of means of pointing to every wide variety at the card, earlier than you locate the corresponding wide variety square.
• Once complete, dispose of the tiles and provide the kid a flip to area numbers 1 – 10 at the board with inside the identical manner.
• Continue to feature any other row of tens if the kid can adequately area the row earlier than it.
• Pack away the Hundred Board together along with your pupil and go back the fabric to the Mathematics shelves.