AMI was constituted in 1929, by Maria Montessori, to maintain and develop her pedagogy with the purpose of making it available to as many children as possible worldwide.[3] The AMI Pedagogical Committee and the AMI Materials Committee determine the nature of Montessori educational materials in use worldwide and AMI maintains legal contracts with authorised manufacturers; Nienhuis in the Netherlands[4], Gonzagarredi in Italy[5], Matsumoto in Japan[6] and Agaworld in South Korea.