The training of the senses was a central element in the pedagogy that Montessori developed for children without specific handicaps (as described by Signert,2005).Montessori believed that it was very important to isolate different sense dimensions and to let the children focus all of their attention on one specific dimension at a time.Consider the following example,aimed at letting children discern different dimensions of geometric figures.Four sets of materials are utilized:
Set 1.Cylinders varying both in diameter and height.The tallest cylinder has the largest diameter and the shortest cylinder has the smallest diameter.