Teens Board With Beads

Teens Board With Beads
Math - Linear Counting
Level	Primary
Age	4+
Prerequisites	Teens Beads Teens Board

This activity teaches the child the names of the numbers 11-19.

Presentation

1. Lay out the boards as shown. Set 9 ten bars and a bead stair on a small mat.

   

2. Stack the cards face down with 1 on the top.

   

3. Take a ten bar and place it to the left of the first 10. Point to the ten bar: "This is ten." Point to the number: "This says ten."

   

4. Take the unit bead bar and place it to the right of the ten bar. "Ten and one: eleven." Count the beads.

   

5. Slide the 1 numeral card over the zero in the first 10. "Eleven." Point to the beads: "This is eleven." Point to the number: "This says eleven."

   

6. Build the other numbers in the same way.

   

Material

Make Your Own

• An easy alternative would be to simply make a set of cards just like those used for the work with the Golden Beads, only for this set you would need nine "10" cards plus the unit cards 1-9.
  
• These could be made out of poster board:

  

  (For a detailed description of how this was done, see A Handmade Childhood.)

• These were made from strips of masonite with strips of wooden dowels used for dividers. The numbers were printed on self adhesive paper and then stuck on.

  

  Source: Maybe Montessori

Where to Buy

Prices and links checked: 23 January 2022

Teens board
Store	Price
Alison's	$39.69
Montessori Outlet USA print	$39.95
Montessori Outlet cursive	$39.95
Nienhuis USA print	$78.35
Affordable Montessori (with beads)	$49.00
Affordable Montessori (with beads)	$49.00

Bead Sets
Store	Price
Alison's	$16.53
Bruins	$25.00
Kid Advance	$11.99
Montessori Concepts	$13.00
Montessori Outlet	$9.95
Nienhuis glass beads	$40.50
Nienhuis nylon beads	$32.95

Set of both Seguin boards
Store	Price
Adena	$68.88
Bruins	$150.00
E & O with beads	$126.00
Kid Advance	$76.99
Montessori Concepts	$70.00

Further Reading

• Basic Montessori: Learning Activities for Under-fives by David Gettman, pages 177-179
• Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years by Elizabeth G. Hainstock, pages 21, 53