Difference between revisions of "Bead Chains - 100 Chain"
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Contents
Age
3-6
Materials
- A hundred chain made up of 10 Ten Bead Bars.
- A set of small labels, 10 to 90 in blue, 100 to 900 in red, 1000 to 9000 in green.
- 1 Hundred square.
- Floor mat.
Preparation
Presentation
- Directress places the materials on the floor mat. She starts by folding up the Hundred Chain into a square and puts it beside the Hundred square, and asks the child, "Do you think this is the same quantity?".
- Then the Directress invites the child, "Let's count". She begins to unfold the hundred chains, stretching it out and place them in a straight line. Directress begins to count the beads starting from 1,2,...10. When she reached 10, she places a marker saying 10 on the top and then begins to count the next 10 beads. At the next 10 beads.she place a marker saying 20 on the top and so on till she reach 100, counting 10,20,30 and so.
- Then the Directress says, "This Hundred Chain makes a Hundred Square" and she pushes the Hundred Square to the end of the Hundred Chain where the marker says 100.
Control Of Error
Directress guided.
Points Of Interest
Purpose
- Help the child to realize how much bigger one hundred are than one ten, and how much bigger one thousand is than one hundred.
- Help the child grasp the conservation of number and reversibility.
- Introduce the child to counting in tens.
Variation
Handouts/Attachments