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 descendants of Multisensory Math Pioneers. One of which is Marilyn Zecher, who reminds us, “when the hands are engaged, so is the attention.” Manipulatives are powerful math tools that help kids grasp math concepts through hands-on learning. It’s all about manipulatives!
Let’s get hands-on with Learning!
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Our 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-10 list of math tools titled, “How to be manipulative” We’re using that term in the best sense of the word and another gem from Marilyn Zecher, who humorously said, “I’m the most manipulative person in the world.” You’ve got to love math humor!
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:
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Word and number form
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Tally marks
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Dot patterns
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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.