Islamic Architecture has beautiful geometrical patterns throughout it. It uplifts the spirits and points to supreme mathematical intelligence of God throughout all creation. Circles & Stars are two geometric shapes that are often repeated.
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Alhambra Spain |
I have had a love affair with Math since about the age of 8 years old when I was introduced to Montessori's long division work. While my friend's struggled in Math in Middle School and High School, I could visualize it and I attribute it to how many hours I would spend in repetition with the different Montessori material.
American Montessori Society (AMS) requires an original material to compliment the completed album. As I was working on my Montessori Math album, I thought to combine my loves of math and Islamic art and a math game that was previously shared with me to make my original math material. Big A was almost 2 years and I was pregnant with S man when I presented this work to my instructor. Now Z man and soon Lil A will use it to learn and practice their multiplication. I love it when material can last a long time and be handed down.
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Montessori pink stars & blue circles. |
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Blue dice tells the amount of circles
& pink dice tells the amount of stars on each circle |
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Control card. |
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Roll and fill the sheet. |
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Hand painted dice, circle and box. |
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Of course you can use regular dice with the printable.
Use 2 or 3 dices to multiply higher numbers than 6. |
Download all our
printables here.
I LOVE this! What a wonderful visual, hands-on way to teach multiplication! I am pinning it for sure & will be using this! Thanks so much for sharing & linking up to TGIF Linky Party. I can't wait to see what else you come up with!!
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This is a wonderful piece of work!! Thank you for sharing.
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This is beautiful! I love the personal tie to art and architecture. I am going to think about how to do something like this for our family.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful work - and a wonderful hands-on multiplication extension. I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow
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