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I really don't get it. I am trying to figure it out but cannot get it! It makes no sense to me. Can you tell? I said that 3X times!
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Have you read the MTC album descriptions here?
I think of it the same as the golden bead work, but just adding a level of abstraction. Instead of using beads, you are using little squares with the quantity written on them.
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Click here
Scroll down under the game and you will find a very helpful video demo, plus instructions you can print out. I just stumbled upon this last night, and the game made perfect sense to me when I watched the demo.
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yes to what Theresa said - after the child is very familiar with the golden beads, the next "jump" is to the stamp game - which is MUCH less cumbersome to use - one tiny square instead of a thousand cube! It is a higher level of abstraction. As with all the materials, I can't imagine trying to use them without an album to guide me and help me realize all the extensions you can do...
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Happymama, which albums do you use?
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I do have an album from Montessori Materials but I am so confused! We are getting ready for the addition stip board where she narrows down the equations to memorize. She can fairly well and can do quite a bit in her head. I'm wondering if this will just put a step behind though since it is abstract and she's doing that naturally on her own?
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Oh we need a light bulb smiley!
So I just looked at the video still a bit confused. Then tried their directions, still confused! So, I then opened the printable sheet of equations. BINGO! Now I get it :)
so here's another ? Does it matter what color skittle you use? And the zero as well does that matter? And, did you purchase yours or just use the downloadable ones that you can find around the net?
Thanks again!
1 more--would it be too much to have her start the addition strip board and doing these too? She can do the snake game fine and we are basically done with the thousands chain but she hasn't got that 10 squares form a thousand which I need to present the place value lesson first. Oh I'm a rambling mess here... I think I need to do place value first right? Then get her to really see that 10 cubes is 1,000 right? Then if she has that is it okay to introduce this while she is working on the addition strip board? I know that will take her some time to finish b/c I do have 2 others that take my attention from her. Thanks!
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The colors of the skittles and chips correspond to the heirarchical colors:greens for ones, blues for tens, red for hundreds, green for thousands.
So, for example, if you want to divide by 12, you would use one blue and two green skittles, etc.
And you use the appropriately colored chip to represent a zero in the proper place value color.
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My humble opinion is that the place value work is foundational. I would work on that before going any further in other areas.
Depending on the child, they can work on several concepts simultaneously. But every child is different.
My dd(6) is doing the golden bead work along with the addition strips, hundred board, and now the colored bead chains (skip counting and multiplication).I tried the snake game and it totally threw her off because we just have not worked enough with the colored beads, but I think the stamp game will be easy-peasy for her since she is getting so proficient with the golden beads.I will probably introduce it some time this month.
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Hi, Theresa - I'm using karen's albums.
I agree to hold off just a little bit longer before adding the addition strip board - but not too long, since that activity begins as simply as 1 + 1 and doesn't get beyond 9 + 9! I introduced it recently. My son enjoys trying to fill out all of the booklet pages Karen had with her albums for this activity - even though writing numbers is not his forte yet.
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Okay, I've been meaning to get back to this :) I've been having some issues in logging in.
Anyway, I think Theresa I'm calling the skittles the things that look like people (a head and triangle body).
I get now that a number like 123 would be 1 red, 2 blues, 1 green. But what do you use those little people things for?
I love this layout now I "get it" with the stamps and such. I was watching the video link and she put down those little people "skittles" for the multiplying. Does each color represent an operation you are preforming? Just curious. I've not purchased a set and have a good print off version for the stamps. I was wondering if those little skittles were essential to the whole stamp game process.
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The skittles are indeed the little people things and sort of represent people. Say you are dividing 124 by 4. You would lay out your 124 stamps (one red, two blues and 4 greens), then 4 green skittles. Then you would divide the 124 amongst the 4 little people (skittles) so that they all get an equal share. Of course you would have to do some exchanging of stamps in this example. Then your answer would be whatever ONE of your little people (skittles) has.
Now, it gets trickier with double digit divisors because you use the blue and red skittles to represent ten or 100 little people, etc.
With multiplication, the skittles act in sort of the same way. For example, in 4X6 you have 6 skittles and you give each skittle 4 green stamps. Your answer is the total of what all skittles have.
Does this help at all?
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Oh yes that does help! Thank you. So if I'm getting this (sorry for questions, but I want this down so I can present this correctly to her) the skittles also represent ones, tens, and hundreds and you use accordingly?
You are only using the skittles with multiply and divide right?
Did you purchase yours? Where do you suppose I could find the skittles?
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I bought plastic game pieces for the skittles - I'm looking at the package right now and they're called "pawns". I got them at my local teacher store, in the math area.
Here's some online, this is the exact package I bought (luckily they come in red, blue, and green!):
Game Pawns
Oh, and the "winks" shown below the pawns work very well as "0" placeholders in the stamp game too!
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oh thank you Lori! You really have great ideas ;)
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this is an old topic, but I found a helpful site tonight:
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