Aug 27, 2021
Early Childhood - 9 Short Chain
The Bead Cabinet is first introduced as a means to demonstrate and reinforce linear counting from 1-1,000. In addition, the Bead Cabinet provides a concrete representation of abstract mathematical concepts. While children at this age are not able to verbalize these concepts, they can represent them. Through the use of short and long bead chains, number squares and cubes, and numeral arrows, the Bead Cabinet concretely demonstrates:
skip counting
multiples
squared numbers
cubed numbers
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