How Do You Teach Subtraction Using Montessori Golden Beads?
Montessori golden beads are used for a wide variety of math exercises in preschool and elementary school. These beads can be used to help associate numbers with their quantities and to demonstrate basic math principles. Once a student is familiar with addition and multiplication, you should move on to subtraction. You can clearly demonstrate how subtraction works using the golden bead set. This lesson can be taught individually or to a small group. Use large number cards and the golden beads to create a minuend from which to subtract. This number can be large and use thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. For example, if you want to subtract something from 3,265, you would use the large number cards to build the number and then 3,000 cubes, 200 squares, six 10 bars and five unit beads to assemble a golden bead representation of the number. Use small number cards to build a subtrahend, the number you are subtracting, in the felt-lined tray. For example, if you want to subtract 1,132 from 3
