Montessori Monday~ Great Lesson 5~ Story of Numbers
Today we did our last of the Great Lessons! I was already for the this one, I had the timeline, I made the charts, and everything was set! What I didn’t prepare for was the math that the kids were going to want to do with all the old numerals! 🙂 I was kept on my toes writing problems out for them to write in roman numerals, Babylonian symbols, and Chinese numbers! They loved it! It was alot of fun! And to think I thought that this would be one of the more boring lessons! 😉 Here is some picture from out work!
Here is Bunny’s Babylonian numbers
And this is the copy of the Roman Numerals Chart she made!
C Work with the Babylonian numbers too and she also did a bunch of addition with Roman Numerals! She thought it was awesome that her numbers were bigger then the example I had on the chart! 🙂
J. wrote out a whole list of numbers in Chinese and then translated it back into Arabic numbers on the other side of the paper!
The day of course ended with a little bit of show! The girls wanted to show off what they learned! This really is a great story and really the timeline is not super necessary right away! The charts are really what draws the children! I made them, so here they are for you to print off yourself! They are NOT in order of presentation during the story so be sure that you keep that in mind! If there is a mistake, let me know! I think I got it right, but you never know! I am linking up to Montessori Monday so stop by there for more Montessori Fun! Happy Schooling!
November 13, 2012 @ 2:29 pm
Great Work! Thanks for sharing the charts. It is great to see how the great lessons work. We are doing it this year too, but a bit slowly! Thanks again!
November 13, 2012 @ 2:44 pm
Wow!! Great Job!!! LOVE IT!! I’m preparing myself too!! It’s on schedule!!! But this week will be the History of Writing or letters!! AWESOME my friend!! and thanks for the Charts too!! You’re a love!!! Hugs!!
November 13, 2012 @ 4:02 pm
We are going slowly as well! Great job! Are the other kids who visit Montessori kids as well or just lucky 🙂 ?
November 15, 2012 @ 3:12 am
Oh they are just other homeschooling friend who expressed an interest in the Great Lessons! I invited them over to join us! My thought was that we are already doing all the work, why not share the fun?
November 15, 2012 @ 3:16 am
Thanks for stopping by and visiting! I am loving watching what you are all doing! Happy Schooling!
November 19, 2012 @ 2:17 am
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying all your Montessori elementary posts, Stephanie! And thanks so much for sharing your charts! I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and pinned it to my Montessori Elementary Activities and Ideas at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/montessori-elementary-activities-and-ideas/
November 19, 2012 @ 3:01 am
Thanks Deb for sharing this! My hope is that my work can somehow help other Montessori homeschoolers out there who are trying to get it all done!
November 25, 2012 @ 5:43 pm
It sounds like so much fun! I too was surprised the first few times I did this lesson that it incited as much interest as it did – I have always had the charts being copied (I have never suggested that the children could – they just wanted to!), almost always someone who wants to use similar tools to write the numbers; sometimes the math problems like you had; and usually a child or two who wants to make a timeline of numbers themselves. I have never used a timeline of numbers because my AMI albums didn’t include it and since the children always made one, I figured why bother spending the money or the time to do it myself 😉
Which timeline did you use? One of these days I should compare what is available and see if I can cull some further suggestions for children when making their own 😉
December 6, 2012 @ 4:05 am
If I had know all of that, I wouldnt have bought one! I was really concerned because I just dont know anything about the history of numbers! I bought my timeline from Alisons Montessori for about $40. I didnt have the time or the knowlege to put one together! I love that it has all the numbers in order of their development. The kids really seemed to be intersted in what the numbers look like! Thanks for stopping by!
November 11, 2013 @ 3:43 pm
I do not see the downloadable/printable charts. What kind of charts did you make?
Laurie
November 12, 2013 @ 3:05 am
Hi Laurie,
I have to work on the link colors! If you click on the underlined words, you should get to the downloads. They are the charts needed for the Story of Numbers. I don’t have the timeline, just the charts for the story! Hope that helps! Happy Schooling!