Montessori 1000 Chain Lesson Activity

Montessori 1000 Chain

A Thousand Chain.

A set of small labels, 10 to 90 in blue, 100 to 900 in red, 1000 to 9000 in green.

Hundred Squares.

A Thousand Cube.

Floor mat.

Help the child 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.

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1. Using the Thousand Chain, start to fold up the ten bead bard bars into tens, making a hundred in a grouping.
2. Then place a Hundred Square on top of each grouping and at the end, places the Thousand Cube.
3. Ask the child, “Do you think this thousand chain would make a Thousand Cube?”
4. The child will most likely say “no”.
5. Now shows them that it does by piling the hundred squares together and then place it beside the Thousand Cube.
6. The children can now see the similarity between the two.
7. Put away the Hundred Square and the Thousand Cube. [/DAP]
8. Unfold the thousand chains, stretching them straight.
9. Now you begin to count and place the markers.
10. At every ten, you would place the corresponding blue marker, 10, 20, and 30,….. When you reach 100, place a red marker on the chain and a hundred square on top.
11. Proceed in this manner until you reach the end where it should be a thousand.
12. Conclude by placing a green marker and the Thousand Cube.
13. End the work cycle