Various Ways to Play the Montessori Hundred Board

Once your child has completed all the tiles on the Hundred Board, remove some of the tiles and have your child insert them back in the correct places. Increase the level of difficulty along the way.

Today, I am going to show a systematic and progressive way to randomly remove the tiles (an oxymoron, I know!) and another day various patterns of removing the tiles.

1. Firstly, for J, I removed 3 tiles randomly, and went on with my chores, while inviting him to insert them back to the correct places. I find that he does it faster and more accurately when I am not by his side. He could do so within seconds.

2. Next I increased the difficulty by removing 5 files randomly, choosing those numbers I think he would know. He could complete it within a minute.

3. Next I removed 7 tiles randomly, 1 tile from each row.

4. After giving him a few rounds of easy successes, I began to choose those numbers he had more challenges with. For example, while he was building up the Hundred Board rows by rows, I noticed that he has a little difficulty with "6" and "9". He mixed up the places of 69 and 96. So this time around, I have included removing "69" in my almost "random" selection of numbers :-) I am excited to see if he would get it right this time around. (Picture will be posted tomorrow :-))

5. I revise even number with J:

6. I revise the 10s with him by removing the 10th column. He got it all correct except that he confused 60 and 90 to 06 and 09, because he turned it around. I am contemplating to writing a line under 6 and 9.

7. I remove all the tiles from the first column and let him try to put them back. He got it all correct.

If your child does not get the placing right, revise the 3-part lesson with him on the number and then try again a few days later.

8. I increase the difficulty by removing two rows and put them in random order on the table and have your child arrange them back to its respective place.

I will continue to update this posts with the various "patterns" of removing numbers from the Hundred Board, so do check back this post from time-to-time.

Additional Information:
J does not have the patience to complete the whole Hundred Board in a session. I was actually in a twit end, until God sent my friend YL to me. She observed J and said that he actually know all his numbers. My presence unknowingly gave him pressure. So I followed her suggestion of letting J does it at his own time.

So I lowered my expectation, each day, I will just let him complete a row, until he reaches the 100 on the 10th row on day 10th. Sometimes, he would do 2-3 rows a day instead, once in the morning before I go to work, and once in the evening during our School Time. Once he had completed constructing all the tiles, I started this activity of randomly removing numbers with him.

For an introduction to Hundred Board, you can read my earlier post here:

http://www.momlearnings.blogspot.dk/2012/11/montessori-activity-hundred-board.html

Updates at 22 Nov 2014 (5Y8M18D)

At 4.5 years old, J wasn't so keen with Hundred Board, and it took a few sessions to proceed to 50, but we didn't complete it to 100.

At 5.5 years old, he chose it himself, and he went on to complete it to 100 in one single session. It was late in the evening, but he was very determined that he wanted to complete it, as the following day is Sunday, our rest day, and we would not be doing any Montessori. He was also able to insert the random ones, although he made some careless mistakes.

22 Nov 2014

Montessori Activity: Hundred Board

 

AGE: From 4 years old (After the child has been introduced to the Teen Board and Ten Board)

OBJECTIVE(S):

1.     To provide the experience and learning in sequence numeral from 1 to 100.

2.     To show the layout of the whole chips and the sequence numerals.

3.     To enable search for certain numeral.

MATERIALS:

1.     1 set of Hundred Board (A wooden board frame. The board is lined to form one hundred squares. A wooden box with a divider in the middle to hold 100 chips... Square chips with numerals 1 ..100 printed on them)

2.     1 mat

PRESENTATION:

1.     Place the box on the right upper of the rug.

2.     Layout out the chips and category from left to right.

3.     Find the numeral 1, put it on the upper left of corner square and say its name.

4.     Find the numeral 2, put it on the right of the 1 chip (You may ask child to help you find the numeral) and say its name.

5.     Ask your friend to find the numeral 3 by saying: “Can you find the good friend of number 2? Yes, it is number 3.”

6.     Continue with each group of chips and encourage child to work with you until whole chips are filled in.

7.     When finished, replace the chips to the box.

8.     Replace the material to the shelf and roll the mat and replace it.

TIPS:

1.   Remove some of the tiles and have the child insert them back to the correct places.

2.   When child can do the work independently and correctly, have him write the numbers on squared paper of long row of paper from 1 to 100.

VIDEO DEMONSTRATION:

More videos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUJP0g_UX6Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sp3tnBZ7wo

CONTROL OF ERROR:

1.     Seeing the child does not put chip on the right sequence.

2.     Seeing the child does not filled in the whole chips.

3.     Seeing the chips left on the mat.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

J (3Y8M11D) tried this for the first time today. He enjoyed it very much, but didn’t want to say the name of the numbers out loud. I did not insist. If I say the name of the number, generally he could find the corresponding tile. It was a long session to do all to 100. I only had in mind to complete up to 30 or 50, but he suggested to go on after each ten. We reached 100 and it felt good. He felt the sense of achievement. I am so proud that he was the one to suggest to continue and that he went on to finish it. But I hope one day he could do it without me by his side.

REFERENCES:

Shu-Chen Jenny Yen’s On-line Montessori Albums

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/syen/mts/math/_link.htm

https://chalkacademy.com/10-ways-learn-hundred-board/

The Hundred Board is available from Amazon:

Montessori Activity: Hundred Board

Age: From 4 years old

Activity Duration: 15 - 30 minutes

Objectives:

1. To teach numeral 1 to 100 in a logical way.

Materials:

1. 1 hundred board with number chips 1 - 100

2. 1 mat or tray

Directions:

1. Bring out the hundred board.

2. Layout out the chips and category from left to right.

3. Find the numeral 1, say its name and put it on the upper left of corner square.
4. Find the numeral 2, say its name and put it on the right of the Chip 1 (You could ask child to help you find the numeral).
5. Continue with all the 100 chips and encourage child to work with you until whole chips are filled in.
6. When finished, put back the chips, and encourage your child try on his own another round (on the same day if he still has the stamina or another day)

Video Demonstration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUJP0g_UX6Y

Tips:

When child can do the work independently and correctly, have him write the numbers on squared paper of long row of paper from 1 to 100.

Cost:

Bingo 40 DKK (7 USD) at Tiger.

Additional Information:

We played Bingo during Joshua's Chinese class on Saturday. The bigger kids serve as bankers in the game. I bought this Bingo set today, and Joshua wanted to try out being the banker. I was pleasantly surprised that he understood the concept of being the banker completely. But he could not recognize all the numerals to 100. So I convinced him to go "back to basics" to present him the "hundred board". We completed up to 30 this evening, before he lost concentration (and me too as I got tired of counting the chip one-by-one to 90!) Joshua could count up to 30, with a few errors in between, in fact, and loosely up to 99 (he understood the concept of the teens. So if I start him off with the tens, he could continue the teens). I have not started the tens and teens board yet, but this is an indication that Joshua is ready for it. I am still waiting for the shipment of Montessori materials to arrive. In fact they have arrived, but still clearing the Danish customs.

This Bingo set serves as the cheapo version of the Montessori Hundred Board made of card board, but it does the job at less than half the cost of the real Montessori materials. It is however only up to 90 instead of 100. The chips are round, instead of square. We own both this cheap version and the expensive Montessori version. Out of vanity, I just wanted to further test out Maria Montessori's hypothesis that tools for children have to be beautiful and attractive i.e. made of wood.

Verdict: Joshua is taking to this cardboard cheapo version well. Our real beautiful version has not arrived yet. I will update it this post after the experiment.

You can get the real version made of wood from Amazon:  



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