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Hands On Learning
Publication: Montessori Voices [Montessori Aotearoa New Zealand], vol. 51
Date: Sep 2008
Pages: 6
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Abstract/Notes: broad stair, checker board, sandpaper letters, practical life equipment
Language: English
ISSN: 1178-6213, 2744-662X
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Hands On Learning
Publication: Montessori Voices [Montessori Aotearoa New Zealand], vol. 50
Date: Jun 2008
Pages: 6
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Abstract/Notes: stamp game, color box, dressing frames, grammar symbols
Language: English
ISSN: 1178-6213, 2744-662X
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The Possibility of Learning Written Language in Early Infancy
Publication: MoRE Montessori Research Europe newsletter
Date: 2003
Pages: 5
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Abstract/Notes: "MORE Abstracts 2003? This work examines the early possibility of written language acquisition and describes a direct experience. In the London course of 1946, Maria Montessori said that the letters of the alphabet should be in children’s bedrooms from very early on and that she would also like to have floating letters in order to use them at children bath time. The composition of words is the precursory act of the super-language we call “reading and writing” and must not necessarily boil down to the mere writing and reading activity itself. Indeed, for Maria Montessori, “it is worth separating this act which can be clearly independent of its higher utilizations”. On the suggestion of a Montessori teacher of unquestionable experience, polished letters were presented to a one-year-old child. The great interest the child showed for this material seems to confirm the “hunger for words” that is typical of this phase, already described by Montessori and then confirmed by Nobel prize-winner John Eccles. The child we observed also showed he could use this material almost immediately to compose words like zio (“uncle”), cane (“dog”), his own name, Raul, and others besides. However, when he tried to compose the word gatto (“cat”), he found himself in insurmountable difficulty and turned to an adult saying, “No, gato no, gatto”, showing he clearly understood the sounds making up the word and thus the letters needed to compose it (gatto). This impossibility was connected to the fact that the polished letters have only one example of each letter. Therefore, a system of mobile alphabet letters was introduced so that the child could continue his fascinating work of word composition which greatly interested him. A study is being made in some child communities, in cooperation with the Montessori Studies Centre, in order to repeat this observation and to finally heed Maria Montessori’s recommendation: “Education must start at birth and the first two years are the most important for all the acquisitions of the psychic embryo”.
Language: English
ISSN: 2281-8375
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Levels of Abstraction in Mathematics Learning Through Montessori Materials
Publication: MoRE Montessori Research Europe newsletter
Date: 2003
Pages: 6
Mathematics education, Montessori materials, Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: "MORE Abstracts 2003? It is time for innovation and thus for contrasting developmental and conservative boosts to come to the attention of the various places in which school action is performed everyday. Montessori materials seem to want to contribute to the representation of the complex concepts of arithmetic and geometry and certainly have allowed the identification and definition of learning models and teaching patterns that have led to defining the Montessori proposal as a method. They have played a key role in the construction of teaching processes that can determine an effective and motivating repertoire of task environments, consistent with the needs and mathematical knowledge of the times in which they were introduced and that they contributed to generate. Certain processes, such as those of abstraction, codification, decoding, transcodification and transfer characterising mathematics learning, in particular, in the various phases of developmental age, may be found in those processes, but also revisited in the light of intentional interconnections within the current developmental state of mathematical, psychological and scientific pedagogical knowledge. The conceptual, theoretical and applicative characterisations in the field of mathematics teaching dictated by the needs to explore the invariant and variable aspects of reality and to seek order to place as a basis of a method, may start up a construction and reconstruction process of the codes of logical and mathematical language on the part of learners, within the specific semantic fields that the task environment may propose. In this sense the materials could be reconsidered as a junction between interdisciplinary maps with specific perspectives inside the “method” but able to enrich themselves thanks to the contribution of the learning experience that “multimedia” children gain in other real and virtual places that go to develop the sense of self-effectiveness in the area of mathematics – a territory which cannot be considered, even today, as very appealing – and within reach of the child’s mind.
Language: English
ISSN: 2281-8375
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New Distance Learning for the New Millennium [Interview with Paula Glasgow]
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 9, no. 3
Date: 1999
Pages: 45–46
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Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
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Learning Maths Japanese Style: What's All the Fuss about Kumon?
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 9, no. 5
Date: 1999
Pages: 15, 42
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Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
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Mistakes an Opportunity for Learning
Publication: Montessori NewZ, vol. 46
Date: Jun 2007
Pages: 5
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Language: English
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Montessori and 'Playful Learning'
Available from: MontessoriPublic
Publication: Montessori Public, vol. 3, no. 1
Date: Fall 2018
Pages: 4-5
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Language: English
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Step by Step in New York [Step by Step Early Learning Center, Miller Place, New York]
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 7, no. 2
Date: Mar 1986
Pages: 1
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
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Learning Spanish in Spring Valley, CA [Helix Montessori School]
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 4, no. 5
Date: May 1983
Pages: 1
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643