Introduction To The Decimal System: Individual Beads Nylon

Introduction to the Decimal System presents unit, ten, hundred and thousand as things a child can hold: a single bead, a bar, a square and a cube. Because the difference in size is felt in the hands before it is ever written down, place value stops being an abstraction and becomes a quantity. The beads are nylon rather than glass, and the material carries a child from three years through to the first written arithmetic.