The Golden Bead Material introduces a group of children to concepts in the formation of complex numbers and the processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

The beads are plastic and the bar is made from copper.

• The set contains:
- 100 golden bead units with a wooden tray
- 45 golden bead bars of 10 contained in a wooden box
- 10 golden bead squares of 100
- 45 wooden squares of 100
- 1 golden bead thousand cube
- 9 wooden cubes of 1000
- 3 wooden holders containing the small plastic number cards 1-3000
- 1 wooden holder containing the small plastic number cards 1-9000
- 1 wooden holder containing the large plastic number cards 1-1000
- 1 wooden holder containing the large plastic number cards 1-9000
- 3 large wooden trays
- 6 unit bead cups