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Assignment 7 Q2 PMC

The document describes a 1,000 bead chain material for teaching children counting up to 1,000. The chain consists of 10 bars of 100 beads each connected by larger rings. Arrows numbered 1-1000 are included to place by the beads when counting. The presentation involves unfolding the chain, comparing squares of 100 beads to the cube of 1000, and placing the numbered arrows in sequence. Exercises have the child mix and place the arrows by counting the beads. The aim is to reinforce linear counting up to 1000 and consolidate counting knowledge.

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Assignment 7 Q2 PMC

The document describes a 1,000 bead chain material for teaching children counting up to 1,000. The chain consists of 10 bars of 100 beads each connected by larger rings. Arrows numbered 1-1000 are included to place by the beads when counting. The presentation involves unfolding the chain, comparing squares of 100 beads to the cube of 1000, and placing the numbered arrows in sequence. Exercises have the child mix and place the arrows by counting the beads. The aim is to reinforce linear counting up to 1000 and consolidate counting knowledge.

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1,000 bead chain

Material Description:

 The 1,000 chain made up of a hundred ‘bars of ten’, a larger ring connects them at each 100,
ten ‘bars of ten’ joined together
 Ten square of 100 in Golden Beads and one cube of one thousand
 Small arrows 1-9 in green, 10 to 90 in blue, 100 to 900 in red, and 1,000 in green in a box
 A tray, a felt mat and Working Mats

Presentation:

 Lay out the 1000 chain mat


 Go to the bead material with the child and show her how to hold the thousands chain, by
unhooking the larger rings and placing one at a time on the index of your left finger
 Lay the 1000s chain on the mat, laying it out fully and bring the other materials
 Fold the 1000s chain into ten squares of one hundred and compare them with the ‘square of
a hundred’, first superimposing them, then stacking the ‘squares of a hundred’ to allow the
child to compare it to the ‘cube of a thousand’, lastly place it to one side.
 Pull the chain slowly into a straight line, showing that ‘rods of ten’ can be put together to form
a thousands chain
 Introduce the arrows read some out loud with the child and group them, non-sequentially into
their different categories
 Count and place the green arrows beside the first nine beads
 Place the blue arrow ’10’ by the tenth bead continue with the blue arrows counting each
bead till 90.
 Put a red arrow by 100 and continue till 900
 Place the green arrow of 1,000 by the final bead
 Finally place the ‘square of a hundred’ after each hundred and the ‘cube of a thousand’ at
the end of the chain
 Read all the arrows forwards and backwards

Exercises:

 The child’s own activity with the material


 Mix the arrows, give the child one at a time and let her read and place it by the chain. She
counts and places the arrows
 Without using the chain, ask the child to give you the arrow and then the next number until
you build a list of arrows in sequence

Criteria of Perfection (Control of Error):

 The labels must fit the last of each bead bar as the child counts the beads. Thus the child
easily sees at the end of a chain if she has made an error in counting
Direct Aim:

 To give the child practice in linear counting


 To reinforce the sequence of numbers up to 1,000
 To consolidate the child’s knowledge of counting
 To show the striking difference between the chain of 100 and 1,000, which is the difference
between 102 and 103

Indirect Aim:

 Preparation for multiplication


 Preparation for squaring and cubing

Age at Presentation:
Five to five and a half years
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