Infinity Street (I - The Lesson)

[@SustainableMontessori]

Thanks! You just have to create a neighborhood to the right of the “simple” family. I would also include “lighter colors” for the decimal neighbors (lighter blue, green and red). For the sake of the presentation I would only go to trillions to the left and billionths to the right. Other option is to present this lesson and if they have been introduced to decimals, they can create an extension.

[@safwahk3833]

Great presentation. How do I incorporate decimals, zero to one in a presentation like this?

[@sharlieburnie8989]

A friendly bit of feedback: this presentation needs a lot of work. For example, you do not begin with the highest hierarchy, we teach children to build numbers form the smallest to the greatest. Fill and name one house at a time. Explain why they needed a mailbox on the street when the thousands family moved onto the street. Another noteworthy thing to mention is the fact that you laid out each house before naming it or filling it with its "family" of numbers. It was rather confusing for me, let alone a young child. Your mainboxes are backwards, they are supposed to resemble the comma that separates number families in mathematics. Please turn them around. Do not make generalized assumptions to the children that every house only has three people in it. Children are trying to make the cosmic connection to themselves. Their home might not have three people in it. You must leave room for various types of homes and families. Do not point out that the houses are growing, this is an indirect aim that the child should be allowed to discover independently on their journey about numbers. Do not try to make numbers with this story, you are taking away the direct learning objective. The objective is not to read big numbers such as on the checkerboard. It is to leave the hierarchical impression on the child. I highly recommend you take another closer look at this lesson for it holds great value to the child when it is done properly. If you are not sure how to do this lesson accurately, please contact me, I would be so happy to help.

[@SustainableMontessori]

Thank you very much for your feedback! I guess there is always room to improve.