ILLUSTRATIONS

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The first Montessori Elementary Class in AmericaFrontispiece
One of the first steps in grammar[24]
Grammar Boxes, showing respectively two and three parts of speech[25]
Grammar Boxes, showing respectively four and five parts of speech[78]
Grammar Boxes, showing respectively six and seven parts of speech[79]
Grammar Boxes, showing respectively eight and nine parts of speech[114]
The children working at their various occupations in complete freedom[115]
Interpreted reading: "Smile and clap your hands"[174]
Interpreted reading: "Take off your hat and make a low bow"[175]
Interpreted reading: "Whisper to him"[188]
Interpreting the pose and expression of a picture[189]
Interpreted reading: "She was sleepy; she leaned her arms on the table, her head on her arms, and went to sleep"[200]
Exercises in interpreted reading and in arithmetic[201]
The bead material used for addition and subtraction[214]
Counting and calculating by means of the bead chains[214]
The bead chain, square, and cube[215]
The first bead frame[215]
The second counting-frame used in arithmetic[226]
Working out problems in seven figures[227]
Solving a problem in long division[238]
Bead squares and cubes; and the arithmetic-board for multiplication and division[239]
The bead number cubes built into a tower[282]
The decagon and the rectangle composed of the same triangular insets[283]
The triangular insets fitted into their metal plates[283]
Showing that the two rhomboids are equal to the two rectangles[288]
Showing that the two rhomboids are equal to the two squares[289]
Hollow geometric solids[296]
Designs formed by arranging sections of the insets within the frames[297]
Making decorative designs with the aid of geometric insets[312]
Water-color paintings from nature[313]
The monocord[334]
Material for indicating the intervals of the major scale[334]
The music bars[335]
The children using the music bells and the wooden keyboards[352]
Analyzing the beat of a measure while walking on a line[353]

PART I
GRAMMAR