Experience Montessori method

INS. FRANCESCA MINAUDO
1° CIRCOLO DIDATTICO «LEONARDO
DA VINCI» TRAPANI
The Montessori said that "the ability of abstraction arises from the concrete experience of
ideas and concepts that form the culture and the development of intelligence."
ABSTRACTION
PRACTICAL
EXPERIENCE
OF
IDEAS
IT
NOTIONS
TRAINING
OF
CULTURE
DEVELOPMENT OF
INTELLIGENCE
It 'a prejudice that the mathematical
abstractions are difficult to understand and
grasped by the child, because in him there is
any human power.
The child has the opportunity to develop them,
implement them, produce them in place
through the experience that environment.
The same Piaget asserted that in an
environment full of stimulating objects,
children progress faster than others, in fact,
thanks to the abstract concrete experiences
according to the ways of the mind and pace
their learning.
The Montessori materials for the development
of the mathematical mind offers the experience
of "first-hand" real and unique, necessary
abstraction that helps to overcome the varying
degrees of knowledge.
DEVELOPMENT PLANS OF THE
MIND MATHEMATICS
Awareness of the
concept of quantity
Acquisition of the
knowledge
Conceptualization of
hierarchy and abstraction
Development plans of the mind according to math Motessori are three:
1 - The child acquires the awareness of the concept of quantity.
The knowledge of symbols that represent the quantity. This first plane is parallel to
of language.
2 - The child acquires knowledge of the laws that govern dal'uomo invented the symbols for the
quantity, ie the numbers.
The human mind has set a standard and an Order.
The "Norma" is a magic key that opens the world of infinite numbers: "The system
decimal ".
"The decimal system" consists in the knowledge of the numbers from 1 to 9 and the child is able to
dial any number with a simple exercise in nomenclature.
An indispensable aid is given by the scientific material that contains the "law of the system
decimal "the results of which are:
DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
CAPACITY 'ABSTRACTION
PASSAGE OF ARITHMETIC HIERARCHY
3 - On the concept of "hierarchy" is based mathematics training of the mind, as the
Quantity is physically represented by the color that indicates the value of the digit.
The child at this point is led towards an abstraction higher.
With the material for the teaching of mathematics relative to the pre - elementary, ranging from three
to six years, we intend to offer a way to access to the mechanisms and laws that underlie the use of the
metric system.