I've been searching high and low for affordable bead squares here but unfortunately, there's none. So I decided to make my own square chains using our decanomial beads. Supposedly, I'm going to form them using connectors like suitable tie wire but again, none is available.
So what I did here was to use the ever reliable contact paper. It was tricky though. What I did was lay the beads flat on the table, attach a strip of contact paper and then I carefully turn them on the other side to completely cover the other side of the beads with the rest of the contact paper.
And this is how they turned out! So far so good :)
Surprisingly, they were sturdy LOL.
Here, I am presenting to Mavi how to identify the square of a number (because they will form a square). He's more interested in the skip counting rather than identifying the square of a number.
The next time we tried, we worked on squares of 1 to 5 and we use the bead chain paper we got from Montessori Print Shop (free) to record the square of the numbers.
This is a good introduction for skip counting and a wonderful visual exercise for squaring. But for now, we'll just proceed with the skip counting disregarding the squares as Mavi isn't interested on it yet.
Happy counting!
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