Bead Chains - 100 Chain





Age
3-6

Materials

 * 1) A hundred chain made up of 10 Ten Bead Bars.
 * 2) A set of small labels, 1 through 9 in green, 10 to 90 in blue and 100 in red.
 * 3) 1 Hundred square.
 * 4) Floor mat.

Presentation

 * 1) Directress places the materials on the floor mat.
 * 2) She starts by folding up the Hundred Chain into a square and puts it beside the Hundred square, and asks the child, "Do you think this is the same quantity?".
 * 3) Then the Directress invites the child, "Let's count".
 * 4) She begins to unfold the hundred chains, stretching it out and place them in a straight line.
 * 5) Directress begins to count the beads starting from 1,2,...10.
 * 6) When she reached 10, she places a marker saying 10 on the top and then begins to count the next 10 beads.
 * 7) At the next 10 beads she placse a marker saying 20 on the top and so on till she reach 100, counting 10,20,30 and so on.
 * 8) Then the Directress says, "This Hundred Chain makes a Hundred Square" and she pushes the Hundred Square to the end of the Hundred Chain where the marker says 100.

Control Of Error
Directress guided.

Purpose

 * Help the child to realize how much bigger one hundred are than one ten, and how much bigger one thousand is than one hundred.
 * Help the child grasp the conservation of number and reversibility.
 * Introduce the child to counting in tens.

Handouts/Attachments
100 Chain Bead Arrows