Building the Montessori Bead Decanomial, aka the Times Table!✨ Today my daughter completed a big work in Montessori math! She built the Montessori Bead Decanomial, also known as the “Times Table”, “Multiplication Table”, or “Pythagoras Table”. In keeping with her recent theme of visualizing multiplication facts, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to present this material. The Bead Decanomial completely isolates the concept of multiplication and allows the facts to be physically visible to the child all at once! Here’s how she built it: First, we discussed perfect squares, which she built and documented in her math journal. Then, we slowly discussed multiplication facts (from one to ten), while she built the decanomial using the Montessori Bead Decanomial box. Her final step will be to record these multiplication facts in her math journal. This was a lot of work for her today, so she’ll jump back in tomorrow to record the math facts…which means this work is still out and available on the floor of our schoolroom.😍 When I was growing up I was only shown the abstract (printed) Multiplication Table. That’s it. Anyone else?🙋🏽‍♀️ I’d love to hear your experiences in the comments, below! LTKmomlife LTKKids LTKdayinmylife