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I have a rising Kindgergartener this fall who is DESPERATE to do school work like her elder siblings....so she reallly wants something that "looks" like math. I'd be perfectly comfortable doing real-life math in the kitchen and such, but she is going to force me to choose something bookish.
I own RightStart Level A and have done it with 2 children already....but it is so time consuming and everything is repeated in Level B for First Grade. I am really trying to simplify my school day and I can't see adding another parent-intensive Math Text for me to teach daily.
I'd like something that doesn't encourage counting so we won't get into trouble when we begin Right Start Level B in First Grade. I'd love something similar, perhaps even Montessori inspired, but just not so time intensive and repetitive.
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I don't really have any suggestions for Montessori-like math. At that age we always use Walmart/Sam's type fat colorful workbooks. They are simple and fun and not mom-instensive.
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There is a book I have - I think it is called Building Thinking Skills (maybe by eps publishing or critical thinking press? I will have to dig it out). It concentrates a lot on shapes and visual manipulation. It can be a nice hands on activity with pattern blocks.
There are also "workbooks" that go along with tangrams and pattern blocks. We bought one with the tangram shapes and put the pages into sheet protectors. The littler ones have a lot of fun with them.
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From my understanding in many things that I've researched and have done with Montessori, they count a lot!
If you just want her to explore numbers, have her count and sort things. The red and blue rods are also a good starting point to numbers. So is the spindle box, but I've never used it.
Check out the Kumon books as well. They start fairly easy in their approach on any concept and gradually increase in level. My son, DS1 age 3, loves his color one and cutting one. he also did the easy maze one. DD age 5 did several of them (clock, cutting, pasting, crafts, folding, mazes, etc.) I like these much more than the workbooks from other places. The color and paper is nice and they are small so not so overwhelming.
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Acystay,
Thanks for the Kumon recommendations. I will check them out.
I am not a Montessori expert by any means, but I did not mean to imply that Montessori did not use counting.
Right Start math was written by a former Montessori teacher. She discourages having the children count, instead encouraging the children to visualize groups of numbers in fives.
Thanks for everyone's suggestions.
Kathleen
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We have used Shiller Math--it is Montessori based. There is a website Shillermath.com Somewhat teacher involved as you have to work with the child. But, lessons are short and my dd(who is 4 and wanted to do school too!)loves it, as does ds who is 9 and has been doing it for about 1 year. Just a suggestion  They use manipulatives and a CD of songs(my kids LOVE) and have a pretty easy to follow book-everything is scripted.
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I don't know how/if it fits in with Montessori, but we've been using Singapore's EarlyBird Math workbooks. There our four workbooks (2 for age 4 and 2 for age 5), and there is a lot of ideas for using hands on activities to re-enforce each concept. There are some basics of weight and measure, graphing, and writing numbers. You can check their website and see the table of contents for each book and sample pages. They are also affordable and have fast delivery.
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I am a Kumon Supervisor  and I second the Kumon workbooks - fun and interesting for children who want to do 'schoolwork" at this age.
I have had a few sons that liked workbooks when young and we used the inexpensive little maths workbooks available from local educational supply stores, so perhaps check out a local bookstore?
With Ruth Beechick's 3Rs series for Maths and these little books, we "covered" K Maths.
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