Montessori sensorial materials are materials used in the Montessori classroom to help a child develop and refine his or her five senses. Use of these materials constitutes the next level of difficulty after those of practical life.
Like many other materials in the Montessori classroom, sensorial materials have what is called "control of error", meaning that the child not only works with the material, but has a way to check the work rather than seeking out the teacher. This is done to help promote independence on the part of the child.
Read more about Montessori Sensorial Materials: The Cylinder Blocks, The Pink Tower, The Broad Stair, The Red Rods, The Colored Cylinders, The Binomial Cube, The Trinomial Cube, Other Materials, See Also
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“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.”
—Maria Montessori (1870–1952)
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)