How to Use Math Manipulatives

How to Use Math Manipulatives with Middle and High School

Do you wish your students understood the “why” and “how” behind the math concepts you teach? Math manipulatives might be the missing piece in your lessons

printable manipulatives from this video linked here

How to Use Base Ten Blocks...

Susan C Anthony: Teaching Math with Base 10 Blocks (30 ways)

To teach ADDITION (ex. of 148 and 85)

To teach SUBTRACTION with REGROUPING

To teach MULTIPLYING 2 DIGIT by 2 DIGIT NUMBERS

To Understand DIVISION

Use Base 10 Blocks to REPRESENT DECIMALS

Show MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS with Base 10 Blocks

The Top 5 Reasons for Using Manipulatives in the Classroom

Aug 2, 2017 - When students use manipulatives to create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate their mathematical ideas, they begin to develop a more positive math disposition and take ownership of their own learning.

Research on the Benefits of Manipulatives from Hand2Mind

Online Manipulatives

Thinking Blocks

model and practice addition, subtraction, fractions, multiplication, division, decimals, ratios, and algebra!

Glencoe Virtual Manipulatives

K-8 everything from attribute blocks and base 10, fractions, number lines, algebra tiles, clocks

Bridges Manipulatives

Fractions, geoboard, money, vocabulary, number frames, Math Rack,...

Algebra Mobile

Solve Me Mobiles takes the abstract nature of algebra and turns it into something students can concretely tinker with. Through trial-and-error, students balance the mobile by entering the values of hanging shapes. This is a perfect precursor to algebraic equations.