Montessori Upper Elementary

Progression
Review
Multiplication
Checkerboard, Golden Beads, Beads,
Bead Board

Division
Golden Beads, Skittles

Proper/Improper Fractions
Red Fraction Pieces, Skittles

Mixed Numbers
Red Fraction Pieces, Skittles

Adding Fractions
Red Fraction Pieces, Skittles

Subtracting Fractions
Red Fraction Pieces, Skittles

Multiplying Fractions
Red Fraction Pieces, Skittles

Dividing Fractions
Red Fraction Pieces, Skittles

Equivalencies
Red Fraction Pieces, Skittles

4.OA.1, 4.OA.2, 4.OA.3,

order of operations; 4.NBT.6,
5.NBT.5, numbers/base ten
4.OA.2, order of operations;
4.NBT.6, 5.NBT.6, numbers/
base ten
4.NF.3, 5.NF.1, numbers/
operations/fractions

4.NF.3c, 5.NF.1, 5.NF.6,

numbers/operations/fractions
4.NF.2, 4.NF.3, 4.NF.3a, 4.NF.
3b, 4.NF.3c, 4.NF.3d, 4.NF.5,
5.NF.1, 5.NF.2, numbers/
operations/fractions
4.NF.3a, 4.NF.3b, 4.NF.3c,
4.NF.3d, 5.NF.1, 5.NF.2,
numbers/operations/fractions
4.NF.4, 4.NF.4b, 4.NF.4c,
5.NF.3, 5.NF.4, 5.NF.5, 5.NF.
6, numbers/operations/
fractions; 6.RP ratios/pro
5.NF.7, 5.NF.7a, 5.NF.7b,
5.NF.7c, numbers/operations/
fractions; 6.RP ratios/
proportions
4.OA.3 order of operations;
4.NF.1, 4.NF.5 numbers/
operations/fractions
New
Lowest Common Multiple

Peg Board, Multiples Chart

4.OA.4, 4.OA.5, order of

operations; 4.NF.2, numbers/
operations/fractions

Greatest Common Divisor

Peg Board, Multiples Chart

4.OA.4, 4.OA.5, order of

operations; 4.NF.2, numbers/
operations/fractions

Decimals
Decimal Checkerboard, Yellow Felt
Board

4.NF.6 numbers/operations/
fractions; 5.NBT.3, 5.NBT.3a,
5.NBT.3b, 5.NBT.7, numbers/
base ten

Number Sentence Equations

Beads, Equation Tickets

Integers
Snake Game, Beads

Powers of Numbers
Powers of Two Box, Cube Box,
Equation tickets, Hierarchic
Materials

Expanded Notation
Wooden Cube Material

Ratio/Proportion
Stamps, Beads, Peg Board, equation
tickets,

4.OA.1, 4.OA.2, 4.OA.3,

4.OA.5, 5.OA.1, 5.OA.3, order
of operations; 4.NBT.2,
4.NBT.4, 4.NBT.6, 5.NBT.3a,
numbers/base ten; 4.NF.1,
4.NF.3b, 4.NF.4a, 5.NF.4a,
numbers/operations/fractions;
6.EE, expressions/equations
4.OA.2, 4.OA.3, 4.OA.5, order
of operations; 4.NBT.5,
numbers/base ten
4.OA.5, order of operations;
4.NBT.1, 4.NBT.2, 5.NBT.2,
numbers/base ten; 5.MD.3a,
measurement/data; 6.EE,
expressions/equations
4.NBT.1, 4.NB.2, 5.NBT.1,
5.NBT.3, numbers/base ten
4.NF.6, 4.NF.7, 5.NF.5, 5.NF.
5a, numbers/operations/
fractions; 4.MD.1, 4.MD.3,
4.MD.6, measurement/data;
5.NBT.1, 5.NBT.2, numbers/
base ten; 6.SP, statistics/prob

Exponent/Hierarchy of a
Kingdom

6.NS.6, number systems; 5.NF.

5 number and operations

Beads, Bead Chains

Percentages/Hundredth Circle
Graphs, Hundredth Circle, Red
Fraction Pieces

Sum x Sum/Binomial/Square
Beads, Golden Beads

Squaring/Sequence
Peg Board, Checkerboard, Written

Algebraic Transformation/
Binomial
Golden Beads, Algebraic
Representations, Graphs

Squaring Rules/Sequence
Golden Beads, Peg Board, Algebraic
Tickets, Binomial Cube (Lid Square),
Trinomial Cube (Lid Square),
Squaring Guide

4.NF.3, 4.NF.5; number and

operations/fractions

4.OA.1, 4.OA.5, 5.OA.1,

5.OA.2, order of operations;
4.BT.1, base ten; 4.NBT.4,
4.NBT.5, 4.NBT.6, 5.NBT.5,
number and operations in base
ten; 6.EE.2, 6.EE.3, 6.EE.4,
expressions and equations
4.OA.1, 4.OA.5, 5.OA.1,
5.OA.2, order of operations;
4.BT.1, base ten; 4.NBT.4,
4.NBT.5, 4.NBT.6, 5.NBT.5,
number and operations in base
ten; 6.EE.2, 6.EE.3, 6.EE.4,
expressions and equations
4.OA.1, 4.OA.5, 5.OA.1,
5.OA.2, order of operations;
4.BT.1, base ten; 4.NBT.4,
4.NBT.5, 4.NBT.6, 5.NBT.5,
number and operations in base
ten; 6.EE.2, 6.EE.3, 6.EE.4,
expressions and equations
4.OA.1, 4.OA.5, 5.OA.1,
5.OA.2, order of operations;
4.BT.1, base ten; 4.NBT.4,
4.NBT.5, 4.NBT.6, 5.NBT.5,
number and operations in base
ten; 6.EE.2, 6.EE.3, 6.EE.4,
expressions and equations

Yellow Felt Board

4.NBT.3 Rounding numbers to

any place

Number Lines, Pegboard

4.MD.2 Using word problems

to cover distance, time, liquid,
mass and money

Fraction Pieces,
Montessori Protractor,
Geometry

4.MD.4-4.MD.7 Geometric
Measurement and
understanding concepts of
angles

Symmetry Lessons

4.G.1-4.G.3 Identifying lines

and angels by their properties

Patterns, Graphing, Number

Lines

5.OA.3 Ordering pairs with

patterns, graphing and
ordering pairs on a coordinate
plane
5.NBT.4 Understanding
rounding decimals to any place

Peg Board, Yellow Felt Board

Measurement Conversions

Binomial/Trinomial Cubes

Geometry Shapes and

Graphing

5.MD.1-5.MD.2 Converting
measurement units and
interpreting data
5.MD.3-5.MD.5c Geometric
measurement with volume and
relate it to multiplication and
addition
5.G.1-5.G.4 Classifying twodimensional figures by their
properties