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ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE | |
The first Montessori Elementary Class in America | Frontispiece |
One of the first steps in grammar | 24 |
Grammar Boxes, showing respectively two and three parts of speech | 25 |
Grammar Boxes, showing respectively four and five parts of speech | 78 |
Grammar Boxes, showing respectively six and seven parts of speech | 79 |
Grammar Boxes, showing respectively eight and nine parts of speech | 114 |
The children working at their various occupations in complete freedom | 115 |
Interpreted reading: "Smile and clap your hands" | 174 |
Interpreted reading: "Take off your hat and make a low bow" | 175 |
Interpreted reading: "Whisper to him" | 188 |
Interpreting the pose and expression of a picture | 189 |
Interpreted reading: "She was sleepy; she leaned her arms on the table, her head on her arms, and went to sleep" | 200 |
Exercises in interpreted reading and in arithmetic | 201 |
The bead material used for addition and subtraction | 214 |
Counting and calculating by means of the bead chains | 214 |
The bead chain, square, and cube | 215 |
The first bead frame | 215 |
The second counting-frame used in arithmetic | 226 |
Working out problems in seven figures | 227 |
Solving a problem in long division | 238 |
Bead squares and cubes; and the arithmetic-board for multiplication and division | 239 |
The bead number cubes built into a tower | 282 |
The decagon and the rectangle composed of the same triangular insets | 283 |
The triangular insets fitted into their metal plates | 283 |
Showing that the two rhomboids are equal to the two rectangles | 288 |
Showing that the two rhomboids are equal to the two squares | 289 |
Hollow geometric solids | 296 |
Designs formed by arranging sections of the insets within the frames | 297 |
Making decorative designs with the aid of geometric insets | 312 |
Water-color paintings from nature | 313 |
The monocord | 334 |
Material for indicating the intervals of the major scale | 334 |
The music bars | 335 |
The children using the music bells and the wooden keyboards | 352 |
Analyzing the beat of a measure while walking on a line | 353 |
PART I
GRAMMAR
MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY MATERIAL
I