Math Manipulatives Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis of Math Manipulatives.

Math Manipulatives Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis of Math Manipulatives.
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Math Manipulatives

Summary: Math manipulatives have been around for years, but are now becoming increasingly popular amongst educators. Math manipulatives include anything from buckets of pattern blocks, trays of tiles, and colored cubes to virtual manipulatives, or manipulatives colored and cut out by the students themselves.
A Positive Outlook on Math Manipulatives

Math manipulatives have been around for years, but are now becoming increasingly popular amongst educators. Math manipulatives include anything from buckets of pattern blocks, trays of tiles, and colored cubes to virtual manipulatives, or manipulatives colored and cut out by the students themselves. All of these materials can help assist in tangibly teaching children math concepts and by pulling math off the page and into the hands of students. For a child to be verbally and physically taught a math concept allows them to think, reason, and solve problems with the teacher's guidance as well as on their own. Manipulatives can be used in lower levels by children making up stories with numbers that use a certain number of blocks to learning decimal places and place value in older grade levels.

It is important for the teacher to show how manipulatives relate...

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