The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method

In the "Children's Houses" we had reached a stage of development where the children could write words and even sentences. They read little slips on which were written different...

One of the novelties included in our experiments was the teaching of metrics, hitherto reserved for high schools. The love shown by children for poetry, their exquisite sensitiv...

The children already had performed the four arithmetical operations in their simplest forms, in the "Children's Houses," the didactic material for these having consisted of the...

Since the publication of my first volume on the education of small children, considerable progress has been made in the matter of musical education. Miss Maccheroni, who came to...

Reading begins in the "Children's House" as soon as the children _reread_ the word they have already composed with the movable alphabet. This early effort is not indeed the true...

The geometric insets used for sensorial exercises in the "Children's House" made it possible for the child to become familiar with many figures of plane geometry: the square, re...

It is through design that the child may be led to ponder on the geometric figures which he has handled, taken out, combined in numerous ways, and replaced. In doing this he comp...

I. THE STUDY OF METRICS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 383 Stanza and line 384 Rhyme 384 Tonic accents (stresses) 385 Parisyllabic lines 386 Imparisyllabic lines 388 The cæsura 391 Metri...

V. ADJECTIVES 51 Analyses 51 Descriptive Adjectives 51 Permutations 55 Inflection of Adjectives 56 Logical and Grammatical Agreement of Nouns and Adjectives 59 Descriptive Adjec...

II. DIDACTIC MATERIAL USED FOR GEOMETRY 265 Squares and Divided Figures 265 Fractions 267 Reduction of Common Fractions to Decimal Fractions 273 Equivalent Figures 277 Some Theo...