The beaded design of ten colors in Montessori's mathematics teaching AIDS is very distinctive. It is the material in the content of numbers and quantities within ten in mathematics, aiming to help children know the numbers and names of 1- 10. Then if you increase the amount of colored beads, it will be transformed into a variety of teaching materials, which can be used as multiplication exercises of multiples or help children understand the concept of square.
In the early stage of children's practice, in order to let children know the overall number of each unit at a glance, different colors are used in the design: 1 is red, 2 is green, 3 is pink, 4 is yellow, 5 is light blue, 6 is purple, 7 is white, 8 is brown and 9 is dark blue.
The practice at this stage enables children to confirm the experience of counting a single number in the past when counting each unit of beads. For example, when a child counts two beads, he knows very well that 2 is composed of two beads of 1 strung together to represent the set number of "2". After a long period of practice, when "counting" becomes more and more complicated, children can't count them one by one. In fact, the design of colored beads provides a foundation for children to learn more complex numbers.