
The material of subtraction snake game is a material for the development of the mathematical mind, and it is a work that can be introduced in parallel with that of the chains of 100 and 1000; it is a fundamental material on which to base the development of details of the same knowledge, in this case subtraction. The exercise with this material has in itself a specific and interesting purpose: it fixes the child's attention on the difficulty of counting through ten. It serves not only to deepen knowledge, but also to make it clearer. The negative snake is a very useful tool for doing long and complex subtraction series in a simple way.



