3. Mathematics

The
mathematics area of the classroom
enhances children's understanding and

inherent  attraction to numbers.
The children are introduced to exercises which

relate symbols with 
quantities since many youngsters are able to recite
number
sequences
without actually  being aware of the value of each. Once
children can

associate the symbols with the  quantities for the numbers to
ten, they
progress
to exercises for the numbers to 100. At the  same time,
they
are introduced to
the decimal system through the categories of units,

tens,  hundreds and
thousands, referred to as the bead material. Children

are able to manipulate 
these quantities on their own and when they
begin
working with the concepts of
addition,  multiplication,
subtraction and
division, they are able to see the
function of
carrying  numbers since it
is related to them, if ten is acquired in

any category, that quantity is 
exchanged for one of the next higher
category
(e.g. ten units, represented
by individual  beads, are
replaced by and therefore
equal to one ten,
represented by ten beads
on a bar). 

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