The Montessori Bead Cabinet (also known as the Cabinet of Powers) Material is a very well-known and defining Montessori material.The Bead Cabinet is first used sensorially to demonstrate the linear concept of the Golden Bead Material and also reinforces linear counting from 1-100 with the hundred chain, and 1-1000 with the thousand chain. The Montessori Bead Cabinet Material also provides a concrete representation of abstract mathematical concepts, which helps aid the passage the child must make