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Revision as of 07:25, 5 August 2020
Description
The Golden Beads are the material most essential for teaching the decimal system to children in Montessori schools. It consists of unit beads which are just individual beads, ten bars which are short lengths of wire strung with ten beads, hundred squares which are made of 10 ten bars wired together to make a square, and thousand cubes which are made by wiring together 10 hundred squares.
Hundred squares and thousand cubes take a long time to make and can be rather expensive, so when doing activities that use a lot of hundreds and thousands, wooden representations of hundreds and thousands are used in the place of the beaded kind.
Make Your Own
Unit Bead
The least expensive unit beads available from the vendors below are a little less than a penny a piece.
The beads should be between 6 and 7.5 millimeters in diameter. They should be as spherical as possible so that they are equally wide as long.
6mm Round Gold Plastic Beads
- Bedazzlinbeads $6.99/950 (0.736¢)
- Craft Kits and Supplies $4.49-$4.99/750 (0.598¢-0.665¢)
- McGills Warehouse $2.49/1180 (0.211¢) (light gold)
- McGills Warehouse $2.49/1180 (0.211¢) (dark gold)
- McGills Warehouse $2.49/1180 (0.211¢) (yellow gold)
6mm Round Yellow Faceted
- Craft Kits and Supplies $3.59-$3.99/1000 (0.359¢-0.399¢)
Ten Bar
These can be purchased for as low as $0.20 a piece (bought in groups of 45). If you can make them for less than this it could be worthwhile.
Beaded Hundred Square
These can be purchased for as low as $1.67 each (bought in groups of 9).
Beaded Thousand Cube
The lowest price for these is $15.99 each.
Wooden Hundred Square
These can be purchased for as low as $0.44 a piece (bought in groups of 45). If you can make them for less than this it could be worthwhile.
Hundred squares and thousand cubes are 7.5cm across. Hundred squares are 7.5mm thick. (2.95 inches by 0.295 inches)
- Wooden hundred squares (and thousand cubes) could be made using a stencil made with a small hole punch and gold spray paint.
- Hundred squares can also be made using a stamp made from pencil erasers.
- Source:Walk Beside Me
Wooden Thousand Cube
These can be purchased for as low as $2.11 a piece (bought in groups of 9). If you can make them for less than this it could be worthwhile.
Where to Buy
Prices and links checked: 05 August 2020
Single Beads - 100 | |
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Store | Price |
Affordable Montessori | $5.00 |
E & O | $5.40 |
E & O with box |
$9.90 |
Kid Advance | $3.99 |
Leader Joy | $8.95 |
Montessori Concepts | $4.50 |
Montessori Outlet | $2.95 |
Nienhuis | $12.50 |
Nienhuis | $18.50 |
Pink Montessori | $3.79 |
Unit Bead Cups | |
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Store | Price |
Affordable Montessori | $4.00 |
Alison's for 2 |
$8.00 |
Bruins for 1 |
$2.00 |
Montessori Outlet | $1.95 |
Ten Bars - 9 | |
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Store | Price |
Adena | $2.95 |
Alison's | $7.60 |
Bruins | $12.00 |
Kid Advance | $3.99 |
Leader Joy | $10.95 |
Montessori Concepts | $3.00 |
Nienhuis | $5.00 |
Nienhuis | $6.00 |
Ten Bars - 45 | |
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Store | Price |
Adena | $12.95 |
Affordable Montessori | $22.00 |
Alison's | $48.00 |
Bruins | $50.00 |
E & O with box |
$37.80 |
Kid Advance | $14.99 |
Kid Advance with box |
$21.99 |
Leader Joy with box |
$21.95 |
Montessori Concepts | $16.00 |
Montessori Concepts with box |
$21.00 |
Montessori N' Such | $18.75 |
Montessori Outlet with box |
$18.95 |
Nienhuis with box |
$61.50 |
Nienhuis with box |
$69.50 |
Pink Montessori | $13.99 |
Pink Montessori with box |
$18.90 |
Hundred Square - 1 | |
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Store | Price |
Affordable Montessori | $3.75 |
Bruins | $10.00 |
E & O | $9.00 |
Kid Advance | $3.99 |
Montessori Outlet | $3.95 |
Nienhuis | $23.50 |
Nienhuis | $28.50 |
Hundred Square - 9 | |
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Store | Price |
Adena | $23.95 |
Alison's | $34.20 |
Bruins | $99.00 |
Kid Advance | $27.99 |
Leader Joy | $33.95 |
Montessori Concepts | $34.00 |
Pink Montessori | $23.89 |
Hundred Square - 10 | |
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Store | Price |
Montessori N' Such | $24.00 |
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