This DVD provides an overview of how the Montessori approach to mathematics moves from the concrete to the abstract. The DVD covers the curriculum from age 3 through 12 and is available at www.edvid.com. It is 25 minutes in length.
I'm very interested in this kind of schooling... can you tell me a bit more about how your experience of a Montessori school has been? It's really outrageous that these obviously more human-mind-oriented methods are not applied across the board...
This system doesn't seem that good. This poor 3rd grade girl spends 8 minutes on a simple math problem using this method, gets the answer wrong, and then using the standard method to answer it correctly in 1 minute: search RU-vid for "The unintended consequences of the Investigations Math"
