Starting from around 5 years of age, when the child has already worked with the teen and ten boards, it can work with the 1000 chain. By experimenting the linear breaking up of the square and then of the cube, the child gets more and more confidence with the numbers from 1 to 1000. Moreover, it is the first approach to the power of a number. A 10 bead...
The material includes:
- a wooden tray (43 x 25 x 2.5 cm) containing 1 beech wood box with lid, divided into compartments, with 10 sets of sticks from 1 to 9 of coloured wooden beads;
- 1 wooden box with lid containing sticks from 1 to 9 of black and white wooden beads and 20 sticks of 10 of gold-coloured glass beads.
All bead bars are made with stainless steel sticks.
Manufacturer: Montessori BF (Trento, Italy)