Montessori Albums
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These albums are my own personal albums and most certainly contain many errors. Any feedback that would help correct these errors or improve the content would be very appreciated.
Other Montessori Albums out there:
Shu-Chen Jenny Yen 3-6 Albums
Montessori R&D Cost $$ These are good. I have a near full set for Upper El from them. There are no pictures or illustrations in the editions I have from them. I find them complete and clear and are well sequenced.
A Good Blog Post Montessori For Everyone has a good blog post about Montessori Albums.
Are this albums AMI, AMS, etc prepared?
I made these albums during my training program which is an AMS program. Our math instructor was AMI trained, however, and claimed to give us more of an AMI approach in math. I have seen albums from different AMS training programs and they can all be very different. It appears to me, based on my limited experience, that there is a wide range of albums out there.
I found your albums very useful. Both my kids go to a montessori school and I absolutely love what they are learning.
You have a fabulous website. I am A.M.I. primary and elementary trained, with many years experience. I just downloaded your albums and have read some of the early math.
My experience with the hierarchical materials: after introducing the materials and the symbols, I have the children practice reading the numbers. I think you can get a set of cards for the materials now, but you haven’t always been able to. I used to borrow cards from the multiplication bank game. The cards are layed out and children choose numbers from various categories and practice reading all the categories. Some children need more of this practice than others do. I have seen children who were really weak in knowing the categories when doing decimal work and know that they really needed more work in reading the numbers. Also, some of them become dependent upon the color and without the color, and even with comma’s to separate number families, they struggle. Having this experience, it helps me to understand how to “fill in the gaps”.
I’m very excited about your albums. I am a secondary teacher who will be having some 6th graders in my middle school class next year, and I’m looking at which lessons/materials they might need.
I’ve seen the algebraic pegboard lesson presented with a peg box that has decimal pegs as well, and can break down roots with remainders even further. Do you happen to know who supplies that, as I can’t find it anywhere and want to purchase it. Thanks!
I find Montessori Outlet to be the best combination of quality and price. They have a close relationship with Nienhuis, the top-shelf manufacturer of Montessori materials.
Hi!
I have browsed your album and I think they are great. Thank you so much for sharing them. They helped me understand what the beads are for as well as how to introduce the concepts and perform the exercises the montessori way. My son goes to a montessori school but their curriculum is based on textbooks and they barely touch the montessori materials that is why I have decided to give him after school activities and having done research on montessori education has convinced me that the authentic approach would really help my son master the concepts. Would you know where else I could find albums for other subjects?