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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not a M teacher, just a M parent so I don't think I can present it as well as you would like. Yes, there are rules on how you use the materials. You can't take the 1,000s bead chain and make it into a necklace. You've have to lay it out on the floor and use the labels and practice sequence counting. But once you have mastered that you can go off and sequence count whatever you want all day long if you are really into it. My kids are in the elementary classes now and I feel that their whole day is open for them to interact with lessons in creative ways. They are constantly making plays and stories and cooking and building science things and making up crazy math problems. And the teachers are passionate about letting the kids come up with their own solutions to situations, letting the kids organize themselves (once they know how to use the materials). To be honest I complain to the M teachers that my kids need more rules and structure because the world of Montessori is not the real world. And they counter back that the purpose of Montessori is to teach a love of learning. One big thing M has taught my children is that their opinion matters so when they learn something new they each want to talk about it and ponder it and self-discover more about it. Good grief, I could never be a M teacher. So much chatter!

Two funny memories come to mind about creative problem solving by M kids. One - we went to a birthday party at a bowling alley. All the kids were M kids. The bowling alley had forgotten we were coming and hadn't set up. The kids jumped in and set up the table, chairs, and all the stuff on the table and organized the shoes and shoe sizes. The bowling alley employees commented on how the kids took charge and organized themselves. Two - our scout troop is almost all M kids and our troop leader sometimes doesn't get organized but the kids always jump in, organize themselves and make decisions. A Montessori tenet is if you give the kids an orderly environment (organized kid-sized materials) the kids can sort of teach themselves.[/quote]

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