NAME - Punamben Hirenkumar Raichada

STUDENT ID - IITT/IDPPTTC/992020/2018/0205-682

COURSE PROFILE - International diploma in pre and primary teachers training

PPTTC

Mid Term Assignment (Project Work)

Topic –
How will you mathematics learning more interesting with the help of different teaching
aids like Number Rods, Spindle Box etc.

« Meaning of mathematics :-
“The abstract science of number, quantity, and space, either as abstract concepts (pure
mathematics), or as applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering (applied
mathematics)”

Mathematics makes it possible to observe, consider and appreciate parts and aspects of
entities with precision, to make comparisons and establish relationships between
entities. Mathematics is a science of structure, order and relations which has evolved
from counting, measuring and describing number and shape, it encompasses logical
reasoning and quantitative calculation.
It evolved from practical life movements, co-ordination and comparison and connects
with all other aspects of human culture – the sciences, music, handicraft, cookery,
construction, sports, dance and throughout the universe where macro and micro patterns
of relationship exist in harmony, Mathematics has an aesthetic and spiritual dimension.
Like the Sensorial curricula Mathematics is a study of universal phenomena.

The Mathematical Mind develops in contact with the environment, if nurtured the child
will be able to express her reality and have strong foundations from which to reason and
apply Mathematics.

Humans search for the nature of reality and it’s expression though symbols which
abstract meaningful facts with precision, allowing us to communicate this meaning and
preserve it. Precision, clarity and accuracy allow us to represent reality and reduce it to
it’s essence. Finding simple, natural laws about reality has been a pinnacle of human
development; the mind is able to generalize an idea, distill it into an explanation and
apply it universally, drawing humanity together. This ability is described by Pascal as the
‘Mathematical Mind’ and the term is used by Montessori to describe a tendency of all
humans.

« Montessori’s approach to Mathematics :-

Abstracting the nature of reality is a human attribute, which all people should have the
opportunity to understand and apply to their daily reality. The child is not born with the
capacity to use Mathematics but has a Mathematical Mind, which given appropriate
experiences in precise observation, comparison and opportunities to explore and compare
different entities, the child sees the relationship between things.

When the child compares quantitatively she uses arithmetic, leading to abstract
intellectual activity. When we compare the shape and dimensions of objects we
use geometry, contact with the environment necessary for the later ability to abstract.
The child is born with tendencies towards order, calculation, abstraction and
generalisation, in the first plane she lays the foundation for logic, judgement and
discrimination.

Exactness, precision, and manipulation are finely tuned as the child uses the purposeful,
active Sensorial and Practical Life materials. Purposeful, precise actions hold the child’s
interest and challenge her to repeat work, making further progress.
How can Montessori Mathematics play an important role towards building a child’s
analytical mind equipped for education in 21st Century

The spontaneous ability to organize classify and quantity patterns and relationship within
the context of daily experience is what Montessori calls the mathematical mind. Great
creation come from the mathematical mind so we must always consider all that is
mathematical as a means of mental development. It is certain that mathematics organizes
the abstract path of the mind, so we must often it at can early age, in a clear and very
accessible manner, as a stimulus to the child whose mind is yet to be organized