AMI MATHEMATICS ACTIVITIES

                                           

                    AMI MATHEMATICS ACTIVITIES

The moment we hear the Mathematics,we close our mind and most of us would say that we do not like Mathematics or that we do not understand it.The most common view is that it is a difficult subject an only people who are extremely intelligent can understand and the other point of view is that it is not meant for girls, another says that students of art do not need to study it.All these are misconception as mathematics is present all around that in our day to day life example. In the making of envelop or paper bags, crossing the roads, shopping etc.Everything has some mathematics involve in it.There is evidence of Mathematics in nature as well.The rotation of earth, Changing of time,The symmetric of the wing of butterfly etc.Mathematics cannot be absorbed by the child like language.It requires preparation. So "Experience  Activities" are necessary in order to make intelligent expand an acquire greater understanding.

                              First group of   ACTIVITIES

1) Number Rods: First we give the "quantity" for the child because  the child  has to  experience the     quantities of each numbers. Here we have used two colours because to show that each number is         represented by a single object............one- only red, Two- red and blue

2) Sandpaper Cyphers : Second we give the symbols for the numbers he already knows. 

3)Number Cards and Rods:  Now we are introducing sequence of the Symbols

4) Spindle Box:  Now we are going to introduce ZERO. There is a compartment for zero also....but       child want to know that zero is nothing....

5) THE CARDS AND COUNTERS:   To indicate  odd and even numbers.

Montessori practical activities for child

Montessori EXERCISES OF practical  LIFE activities 

For an unconscious mind child with the absorbent mind who come to our children home (AMI MONTESSORI). The adult we are the AMI guides who had practice to guide them. We should guide them to do an activity with the proper manner. It will develop Coordination of the child’s movement, development of the muscles, and concentration. They will absorb it quickly without selecting using their absorbent mind. It will develop good manners in the future society. Because we believe that we can transform the good manner through this unconscious child.

01) How to carry   a chair: 

When you  carry a chair  feet should be together. If we are a right handed person Place your left arm four fingers  are placed on backrest and thumb should be place on top of the backrest. Same as right hand four fingers are placed on bottom of the seat and thumb should be on top of the seat. Give a firm grip. Raise the chair to the waist level. Carry it to the destination. When you place it again gradually bend,  slant   the chair  and place it without noise .   

Carrying a chair

placing a chair

02) How to sit and get up from a chair:
Place the right hand four fingers at the bottom of the seat thumb on top of the chair. Smoothen the dress using other hand. Sit on the chair slowly. Place the hands one at a time on your lap. To get up from the chair keep your right arm four fingers under thumb on top of the seat.Same as place the left arm on left side of the seat. Give a firm grip. Leave the right arm four fingers and the thumb. Same as leave the left had.

Tendencies

Tendencies of the child does not start at 3 years. It starts at conception. Tendencies are universal because all human being have it. It is helped to construct a man. Before birth tendencies are dormant and sleep. We have to activate it after birth.

Exploration          Orientation           Concentration                                 

    

Self-perfection      Exactitude            Imagination                                  

                   

 Socialization        Independence       Abstraction                       

 Repetition             repetition             Creative Imagination       

Work                      Order                   Spiritual life  

Communication      Movement

Exploration is a tendency which puts man in contact with his environment. When we consider about the child who explores physically through his senses and through movement especially of the hands. The child uses all his resources to explore and absorb impressions. In the earlier stages the child looks around the cot, touching, smelling, tasting etc. This tendency make him to urge to explore. He experience the difference inside and outside.  At 2 years he is able to explore every object using his hand.Orientation is help the child to find his place in this environment. This tendency helping him to adapt himself to the environment  which he has born.The baby start communication with his mother even before birth. This is done through movements. After birth child communicate through gestures, cries, touch, smile to make know his needs. The parent try to interpret this demands. He cries different ways to express different needs. Orientation is also an important tendency because after birth child enters completely to a different environment. This tendency helps the child to find his place. He gets in to use the different temperature, smells, noises, food etc.  The child has to orient with his strange environment to adapt himself to the environment.Order is as essential to a little child to be successful in any action. Order is essential for the orientation.order is need for intellect as it is leads to clarity of thought .Outer order helps to create inner order.Disorder disturbs him, upsets him, and he may express his suffering by despairing cries or by an agitation that can even assume the forms of illness.

For example story from the secret of child by Dr. maria Montessori  A little family Scene,

Baby only few months old was accustomed to lie on a high oblique bed, so is to dominate its environment.  There were coloured panes in the windows, a few pretty pieces of furniture. flowers and among other things, a table with a yellow table cloth on which stood a plant.one day a visitor came in and put her umbrella on the table. The baby girl began to grow excited, and the umbrella was certainly the cause, for after staring at it. She began to cry.it was thought that she wanted the umbrella, which was brought to her but she pushed it away. But the baby’s mother who knew something of the child’s early psychological symptoms, took the umbrella from the table carried it out of the  place. Immediately the child grew calm. The reason for her agitation was that the umbrella on the table was in the wrong place, and this violently disturbed the usual picture of the position of things in an order that child needed to remember.

THE CHILD

THE CHILD

Child  psychologists  say that The child is a worker and also a constructor of a man. He has to adapt himself to the environment in to which he has born.  The aims that requiring functional independent. that mean ability to do his work by himself for himself what he has to do. The adaptation to the environment easy for a child because he has the Absorbent mind and tendency.

A child psychology is a vast area and have to do lots of analysis about a child to know about them. As an AMI montessori diploma student hope to write about child psychology in future.The child psychology is studying about child's mind and how the mind of a child develops.

Dr.Maria montessori said birth is first act of independence and we have to study a child from birth. Child psychology is that start studying  mind of a child from the movement of birth on wards  but Dr. maria said that child mind is existed before his birth.Child has the potential to develop his mind by conception. Mother doesn't gives birth. Child only takes birth to comes out.Child mind is unconscious but he has an absorbent mind . The child wherever he is born who has the power , energy and potential to adapt himself to the particular environment. Even if a child is born in uncivilized place and he is kidnapped to civilized place he will adapt himself to the civilized place.Tendencies is actually pushing a child to somewhere.

A single observation enough to prove this.........

The child grows up speaking parent's tongue. Yet to grown ups the learning of a language is very great intellectual achievement . No one teaches the child, yet he comes to use nouns, verbs,and adjectives to perfection. but if at a later age the child has to learn another language, no expert help will enable him to speak it with the same perfection as he does his first.

A child has power, potential and all the things are within him from birth. The adult should activate that. the adult should help the child to make grow. 

AMI MONTESSORI

( Association of montessori international)

We all have gone through the montessori education in our childhood.Montessori is an educational teaching profession that focuses on the individual child and his needs.Montessori is a comprehensive educational approach based on the observation of children's needs in a variety of cultures all around the world. I also have started a Diploma in AMI montessori education.  It is something different when we compare with our normal montessori education.

The AMI Montessori environment contains specially designed, manipulative "materials for development" that invite children to engage in learning activities of their own individual choice. Under the guidance of a trained teacher, children in a Montessori classroom learn by making discoveries with the materials, cultivating concentration, motivation, self-discipline, and a love of learning.

The AMI montessori  method has developed by Dr. Maria montessori almost a century ago. Dr. Maria Montessori developed this educational approach based on her understanding of children's natural learning tendencies as they unfold in "prepared environments" for multi-age groups . Dr. maria montessori said that the child is a worker. He is the constructor of a man and  he has to adapt himself in to the environment which he has born. This adaptation will be occurred by his absorbent mind and tendency. The child aims that requiring  functional independent which mean to do by himself for himself what he has to do.

கரடு முரடான வாழ்க்கைப்பாதை ............

கருவாகி தாயின் வயிற்றிலே உருவம் பெற்றோம்.பிறந்தோம் வாழ்க்கையின் அடுத்த நொடி பற்றி சிந்திக்க தேவையில்லை .நமக்காக அனைவரும் . ஏன் தெருவில் நிற்பவர்கள்  கூட . மழலை மொழி கேளான் மூடன் என்றான் பாரதி .மழலையை கொஞ்சாதார் யாருமில்லர். மழலையாக எமது பயணம் தொடரும். நாட்கள் செல்லும். நாங்களும் வளருவோம்.வயதிட்கேட்ப  சுமைகளும் கூடும். பொருளாதரத்திற்கு ஏற்ப கல்வி.இப்போதெல்லாம் அதுவும் விற்பனை.ஒரு வழி தப்பியவாறு சமூகத்தை சேருகின்றோம். ஆரம்பமாகிறது எதிர்நீச்சல். மீண்டும் மழலையாக வாழ்க்கையை பயின்றவாறு ஆனால் இங்கு சற்று பயத்துடனேயே ......

ஆனால் புத்தகப்படிப்பை விட சற்று சுவாரஷ்யமாக இருக்கும். வாழ்க்கையோ எங்களுக்கு ஒவ்வொன்றையும் அணுவணுவாக பிரித்து சொல்லித்தரும். சிலவேளை  இனிப்பாகவும் சில வேளை கசப்பாகவும் நாட்கள் நகரும்.ஆனால்  இவைகளை உணருமுன் காலம் கடந்து விடும்.இயற்கையின் நியதியும் அதுவே.உலகமேன்பதோ  நாடக மேடை அதில் நாமெல்லாம் நடிகர்களாக  வளம் வருவோம்.இதற்குள் அன்பு, பாசம், காதல் எனும் காட்சிகளும் அரங்கேறும். அறிந்தோ அறியாமலோ உலக மாயையில் சிக்கியவாறே.....

பரவாயில்லை அதுவும் அதனை கடந்து செல்பவர்களுக்கு மட்டும்தானே.பிரச்சினைகள் எல்லோருக்குமல்ல. பிரச்சினைகளை தேடி செல்பவர்களுக்கு  மட்டுமே என்பது எனது சொந்த கருத்து 

என்று எம்மனதை விட்டு நீங்காத நாகூர் E.M ஹனிபா

தோன்றிப் புகழோடு தோன்றுக அ ஃதிலார் தோன்றலில்  தோன்றாமை நன்று அடிக்கடி இல்லாவிடினும் சில நேரங்களிலாவது இஸ்லாமிய கீதங்களை கேட்கும் வழக்கமுடையவள் என்பதால் தோன்றியது இந்த ஆக்கம் அந்த பாடல்களை கேட்டு கொண்டிருந்தபோது பாடியவரை பற்றி யோசிக்க தோன்றியது . வரலாற்றை புரட்டி படிக்க தேவையில்லை.எல்லாமே கவி வரிகளாக.அப்பாடல்களில் ஈர்கப்படாதவர்கள்  இருக்க முடியாது. சிறுவர்கள் முதல் பெரியோர் வரை அவரை மறந்திருக்க முடியாது.

இஸ்லாம் இசையை வெறுக்கிறது என்பதென்னவோ உண்மைதான் . ஆனால் இவர் தந்த இஸ்லாமிய கீதங்களோ  எங்களை மார்கத்தின்பால் சிந்திக்க வைக்கும் வல்லமை படைத்தது .யாரும் அநுபவத்தில் உணர்ந்திருப்பார்கள்.

இசை எங்களை மெய் மறக்கச்செய்யும்.இதனால் இசை இஸ்லாத்தில் வெறுக்கபட்டிருக்கலாம் .இது இசை பற்றி எனது சொந்த கருத்து.

ஞானத்தின் திறவுகோல் நாயகம் அல்லவா?

இவ்வாறு சிறப்பான பல பாடல்களை தந்த அன்னாருக்கு இறைவன் அன்னாரின் தவறுகளை மன்னித்து  ஜன்னதுல் பிர்தௌஸ் எனும் சுவனத்தை கொடுப்பானாக .ஆமீன்