Fractions not?
Ihsan is tiring me out. His quips start from the moment he awakes to the moment he falls asleep. He wanted to find out the definition of the geometric solids close to bedtime. Lucky for me he forgot about it. He must be finally tired.
Today, he convinced me on the science behind the Montessori method.He was working on some fraction manipulatives, which were not Montessori by the way, and started to see the point behind equivalent fractions.
What surprised me was how he managed to translate it to numbers beyond units to billions. So there it was, four pages of equivalent fractions of half from units, tens, hundreds, thousands, millions and billions.
Number placing is taught in Montessori preschools after the child has gained the quantitative and ordinal concept of numbers. Then, they are taught only to thousands and in elementary level to billions, which ashamedly I've not done, due only to my lethargy and lack of resourcefulness for material making. Ihsan has been shown the manipulatives only to thousands and have learnt only the abstract numbering to billions from a casual conversation with me.
God gives us strength in the strangest ways in the most fitting time: )
Alhamdulillah.....
Today, he convinced me on the science behind the Montessori method.He was working on some fraction manipulatives, which were not Montessori by the way, and started to see the point behind equivalent fractions.
What surprised me was how he managed to translate it to numbers beyond units to billions. So there it was, four pages of equivalent fractions of half from units, tens, hundreds, thousands, millions and billions.
Number placing is taught in Montessori preschools after the child has gained the quantitative and ordinal concept of numbers. Then, they are taught only to thousands and in elementary level to billions, which ashamedly I've not done, due only to my lethargy and lack of resourcefulness for material making. Ihsan has been shown the manipulatives only to thousands and have learnt only the abstract numbering to billions from a casual conversation with me.
God gives us strength in the strangest ways in the most fitting time: )
Alhamdulillah.....
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