I often start our weekly school time by asking DJ to “choose something to do.” This week his answer to my question was the 45 Layout – again. DJ first did this work back in June 2015. This is a BIG work for a little person. It involves laying out all of the 1 to 9000 number cards along with corresponding Golden Beads. Sometimes called the “Bird’s Eye View,” the purpose is to give a very tangible experience of the…
After a year of working with the Golden Bead materials, I introduced DJ to the Stamp Game this week. This material will be used in a very similar way to the Golden Beads to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. However, instead of have a tiny unit bead and a large thousand cube, each category will be represented with a small square with the category written on it. This is the beginning of the “passage to abstraction” – although DJ…