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Athanasia Siaviki; Eleni Tympa; Vasiliki Karavida; Ioannis Fykaris – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
The Montessori method offers an alternative approach to public and independent schooling. In the Greek educational system, the Montessori method is mainly applied in preschool and primary educational contexts. The main research objective was to investigate the early mathematical competence of students aged 4-7 years old attending a Montessori…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Young Children, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education
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Elben, Judy; Nicholson, Tom – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2017
The main purpose of this study was to examine whether the age at which children start to learn to read affects their later progress. The study was conducted in Zürich, Switzerland, and compared a first grade class in a local school with two first grade classes in a Montessori school. It was found that although the Montessori children had an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alphabets, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Laski, Elida V.; Vasilyeva, Marina; Schiffman, Joanna – Journal of Montessori Research, 2016
Understanding of base 10 and place value are important foundational math concepts that are associated with higher use of decomposition strategies and higher accuracy on addition problems (Laski, Ermakova, & Vasilyeva, 2014; Fuson, 1990; Fuson & Briars, 1990; National Research Council, 2001). The current study examined base-10 knowledge,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Knowledge Level, Primary Education