DIY 📦 Abacus 🧮 Why is Abacus 🧮 important during Early Years Learning? ⠀ Montessori uses the term “materialized abstraction.” Meaning, turning abstract concepts, like Numeracy, into a concrete application with hands-on tools and tactile materials. ⠀ Before the application of sticks and stones, we counted numbers with fingers and hands and later - the method of counting with beads – ‘the abacus’ – was invented. ⠀ The abacus has been in existence in China since the second century BCE, although t

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