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100 Chain 

Chain Beads @Home Variation Image


 

Recommended Age: 4 and ½ to 5 and ½ years 

 

Purpose: To consolidate linear counting and to show the child skip counting. 

Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must present the exercise to the child first, once shown the child may work independently. 

 

Prerequisites 

  • The child must be able to recognise the numbers and quantities of numbers up to ten 
  • The child must have worked with the teen beads and boards and can count onwards from ten 
  • The child must have worked with the ten’s beads and boards 

 

Materials 

NOTE: if using paper version at home, you bring the materials to the table, skipping the steps in a normal classroom setting where the child is shown how to carry the chain at the bead cabinet 

 

Preparation 

  • None 

 

Steps 

  • Invite the child to the activity, the child may bring a mat 
  • Show the child the materials needed at the bead cabinet (labels and 100 bead square) 
  • The child may bring them to the mat, go back and show the child the 100 chain, showing them how to carry it (vertically) 
  • Invite the child to carry the chain to the mat, assisting them to lay the chain on the mat (horizontally) 
  • Tell the child that “if you stretched out the 100 square it would look like the chain”  
  • Fold the chain, with each fold counting 1 ten, two tens, 3 tens etc… until you get to 10 tens, telling the child that “10 tens is 100”) 
  • Superimpose the 100 chain on top to show it is the same, then take it off 
  • Unfold the chain and invite the child to fold and count in the same way 
  • Introduce the labels to the child, noticing the different colours 
  • Invite the child to sort the labels into their respective colours 
  • Count and touch each bead 1-10, placing the green labels with their corresponding number from 1-9 (see photo) 
  • When you get to ten let the child know from here on there is only a label for the last bead on each bar 
  • Count onwards from 10, once at 20 place the label 
  • Count on to 30 
  • Invite the child to take over, or you do all, then remove the labels and invite the child to do all 
  • Once the 100 label is placed, put the 100 bead square at the last increment of ten (refer photo) 
  • Remove labels from chain, child may sort, count and relabel chain independently 

 

Variations 

  • None 

 

Article by Northwest Montessori

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