This visual tool helps students develop number sense within 10.
Explore ten frames and play here!
This tool helps students practice counting forwards AND backwards. It also provides support for understanding more/less as students see how numbers are related to one another. The number line is a great tool for adding and subtracting numbers!
Explore a virtual number line.
This tool is helpful for counting and seeing the structure within our number system. Sometimes these charts start at 1, sometimes they start at 0, and sometimes the numbers get greater as we move UP the chart!
This tool supports number relationships within 20. It allows students to create mental images of numbers using 5 and 10 as anchors.
Pattern Blocks are a collection of 6 shapes in 6 colors - green triangles, orange squares, blue rhombuses, tan rhombuses, red trapezoids, and yellow hexagons.
Play with pattern blocks!
Unifix cubes are plastic linking cubes. They snap together and come in a variety of colors, so they are useful for all kinds of fun math activities in the classroom.
Play with unifix cubes! Choose your grade level and connecting cubes under the manipulatives link.
This tool is a concrete number line. In the early grades, it is used to develop number sense and an understanding of number sequence and magnitude. It is also a tool for making sense of and solving addition and subtraction problems.