2. Paper divided with colored lines to divide it into the seven categories the child may not know. Count the beads beginning with the units, go through each category.
2. Count the unit beads, moving them to the right. As you do so, say, "one unit, two units" all the way to ten units.
3. After having counted ten units say, "Ten units make one ten".
4. Immediately as you say this move the 10 units back to the left and move one 10 bead to the right.
5. Continue counting tens - move 10 tens back to the left as you move 1 hundred to the right.
6. Continue in the same manner through the hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, and millions.
2. Use the paper with the unit line in green, the tens line in blue, the hundreds line in red, units of thousands line in green, units of ten thousands line in blue, hundred thousands line in red, and units of millions line in green.
3. Slide one unit over to the right.
4. Write the numeral 1 in the first box of units column on notation paper in green or lead pencil.
5. Continue to slide unit beads over to the right one at a time while naming them. Each time record them in the units column.
6. After having counted ten units say, "Ten units make one ten".
7. Immediately as you say this move the 10 units back to the left and move one ten bead to the right.
8. Record 1 ten by placing the digit 1 in the tens column.
9. Continue to count tens, recording each time you slide a ten bead to the right.
10. After having counted ten tens say, "10 tens make 1 hundred".
11. Immediately as you say this move the ten units back to the left and move one hundred bead to the right.
12. Record 1 hundred by placing the digit 1 in the hundreds column.
13. Continue in the same manner for the thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, and millions.
14. After reaching the millions column, tell the child the empty unit spaces are all zero and write "0" all the way down the unit column.
15. Do the same thing for the tens column, hundreds column, thousands column, ten thousands column, and hundred thousands column.
2. Another child
3. The directress
4. The child's coordination when moving the beads
2. The seven wires with beads on them
3. The large numerals on the left side of the frame
4. Using the notation paper
5. Writing all the zeros down the columns on the notation paper
2. Growth in the understanding of place value concept of the decimal system
3. Preparation for computation of the abstract
4. Development of the understanding of exchange in addition