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• Control of error: Materials are sensory-based and fashioned to isolate one concept or skill for hands-on learning, independent problem-solving and analytical thinking. When using these materials, it’s immediately clear to a child if something is wrong or out of place, allowing them to quickly self-correct, leading to better problem-solving, resilience and concentration.
• Purposeful activities using movement and exploration: There’s not sitting stationary all day behind a desk in a Montessori learning environment. The activities keep children up and moving around, and the learning taking places during such activities is more easily retained because the whole body is involved in learning it.
• Materials isolate one concept or skill: Trying to teach too many skills or concepts at the same time overwhelms children, so Montessori materials tend to hone in on just one primary skill or concept.
• Develop fine motor skills: Fine motor skill development is critical in a child’s education and must be put into balance with gross motor skills for a well-rounded result.

• Beautiful and engaging: Montessori materials are beautiful in a way that seems to call out to the children to come and engage them.
• Hands-on experiential learning: Experiential learning is always good because what the hand does the mind remembers. Montessori materials and activities engage the mind, the heart and the hands. There is no passive reception of information. Everything is active.
• Simplify abstract concepts: Even abstract concepts are simplified enough to be learned through hands-on activities. Beads for mathematics makes the abstract idea of subtraction very concrete as the child takes a certain number of them away.
• Progression order: There is a logic to how things are presented or displayed in a Montessori learning environment – easiest to hardest and left to right (which helps with reading). This helps children organize their thinking, follow a logical progression, and go at their own pace.