Reply #10: No two ways about it: Math is a discipline. [View All]

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I liked the Montessori approach where geometric principles were introduced with counting and application of numbers (e.g., spatial geometry where two and three-dimensional shapes became familiar to four and five year olds). One was a single bead. Ten was a bar of ten beads. One Hundred was a square of ten bars of beads. One Thousand was a cube of ten squares of ten bars of beads.