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Montessori Counting with the Mate Game

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Summary: The mate game in Montessori counting teaches children larger numbers. Learn how the mate game uses decimal trays as another way to teach children to count in this free educational video about Montessori counting methods.

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Tami Elliot is the owner and a teacher at the Northstar Montessori Preschool in Saline, Michigan. She has over twenty years of experience working with children, and she has owned and...read more

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"The is called the mate game. Please bring me two thousands. Hand them the tray, and have them go get two thousands. One, two. Please bring me four hundred. Four hundred; one, two, three, four. Please bring me twenty. Twenty; ten, twenty. Please bring me seven. Seven; one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Let's do the magic slide. Ask the child what that makes. They should say the number properly, because the items are right there. And you say, let's do the magic slide. Two thousand four hundred and twenty seven. You're right. "

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