How To Be Manipulative: Our Top Tools for Math Intervention
How often are our children’s hands engaged with math manipulatives?
Could the absence or underuse of effective math tools be holding our students back? We at Made for math are structured math Pioneers. Systematic and explicit instruction paired with hands-on learning helps kids grasp math concepts. Manipulatives are SO important!
Let’s get hands-on with Learning!
Watch Now: In just over 2 minutes, Adrianne Meldrum, our CEO, breaks down the CRA method for you! Click HEREOur specialists guide our students to build, create, arrange, and yes, “Manipulate!” In the spirit of hands-on learning that truly resonates with our kids, we’ve put together a Top-15 list of math tools titled, “How to be manipulative” We’re using that term in the best sense of the word!
Are your students ready? Are you geared up to get some math tools? Here we go!
Build in Subitizing Skill Practice with Games
By organizing quantities beyond four into dice patterns, students can begin to develop automaticity in identifying numbers larger than four. For example, if shown a disorganized pile of eight items, you might need to count them or identify groups of smaller quantities and add them together; however, if shown a domino pattern of eight, the quantity can automatically be determined at a glance. The term for identifying larger number quantities as being composed of smaller units is conceptual subitizing (Clements, 1999).
These playing cards feature conceptual subitizing!
52 cards have been organized to feature the following number representations:
- Word and number form
- Tally marks
- Dot patterns
- Dice patterns
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Jennie Miller
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is our Marketing Assistant and content creator here at Made for Math. Jennie loves being part of a company that is working to make mathematics accessible to children with dyscalculia.