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Posted: Jan 09 2008 at 8:01pm | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
I'm very slowly delving into Montessori math, and I'm preparing to teach ds the snake game. Adding colored beads together to make ten and replacing them with a ten bar- got it.

Black and white beads- don't get it. I understand how you make a snake, count beads to ten and then replace the beads with the golden bar and use black beads to hold your place. I don't understand why there are only black beads up to five and then the rest are white. Is this because you really only ever need up to five black beads? Are the white beads just there to make a nice pyramid? Or am I missing something? When, for example, would you use the five black/four white bead bar in preference over the plain five bar?

One more: how long do you make the snake? Just a random length?

I'm feeling a little silly about not getting this on my own. *sigh*

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Posted: Jan 09 2008 at 8:16pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
Have you seen the snake game videos here? I found them very helpful.

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there is an great demo video on at

http://www.montessorimaterials.org/math.htm
hope that worked.
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Posted: Jan 09 2008 at 8:23pm | IP Logged Quote Mamamoon
oh, wow~
you came to the right place for assistance!
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Posted: Jan 09 2008 at 8:35pm | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
Wow! I did not know those videos were even available- thanks! Now if only I can get my Mac to play them

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OK- I watched all the videos- very good. But I'm still not understanding why the mix of black and white beads (or grey and white or red and white) is used. Why aren't all the remainder beads just one color??



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Posted: Jan 09 2008 at 9:17pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
I think it is just a visual device so you can easily see how many there are without counting.

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Posted: Jan 10 2008 at 6:26am | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
I thought that might be it... and I don't know why it just bothers me. I guess I'll get used to it. Thanks again for your help!

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ooh - I'm late seeing this. Thanks for the link to the demos Theresa and Lisa!

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