Quality of Numbers
updated August 19, 2023
Recorded here is my own personal collection of articles, resources, favorite links, teaching ideas, and lesson plans. It encompasses many years, from the very beginning of my experience studying and learning about Waldorf to the present time. People from all around the world visit my site and recommend it to others. Welcome!
This site records my journey. I hope my honesty is encouraging and helps break down some barriers that may prevent people from trying Waldorf ideas. Because this is an ongoing site documenting my curriculum experiences and ideas, some materials are more Waldorf-y than others. Please feel free to take what you like and leave the rest.
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10 Number Verses (PDF)
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Books to Buy
For mathematics I do like Jamie York's materials best. You can easily put together this block on your
own but you WILL want his book for the mathematical progression of skills for the year.
Making Math Meaningful:
A Source Book for Teaching Math in Grades One Through Five
I first taught this block back in August/September 2016.
We did this hand in hand with the very beginning lesson of Form Drawing, straight line and curve.
Here are the four blog posts detailing all that we did to explore each number & story:
Blog posts from teaching this block in November 2019:
Blog posts from teaching this block in October 2021:
In addition to Jamie York's book, I used ideas from
A really nice cooperative board game for practicing Even and Odd numbers is Cauldron Quest.
I usually introduce even and odd numbers with gems. With even numbers, match them up in pairs. "Everybody has a buddy." With odd numbers, one gem is the odd man out.
If you do Quality of Numbers up to 12, you could introduce this game when you get to the number 12, since rolling three dice and having them add up to 12 is one of the ways you get to do a magic spell. (The other two ways are having all the dice be even numbers or all the dice be odd numbers.)
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