Examples of Manipulative -Journal#14

Examples of Manipulative

Elementary teachers who use manipulatives to help teach math can positively affect students learning .Students at all levels and of all abilities can benefit from manipulatives.

There are some kinds of munipulatives that teachers can prepare for students in the math class which they don't  cost too much for teacher or for the school .

1-Manipulative such as buttons, dried beans, cubes, and animal counters can help young people develop a rich understanding of “number” which forms the basis for counting, arithmetic, and real-world applications.

 They can be used for comparing as well as sorting and classifying. For example, children can use any of these objects to make, count, and order collections of objects. (E.g. Give me four buttons. How many beans are there? Put these groups in order from smallest to largest.)

These manipulatives mostly use for lower grades.

2-Sets of attribute logic blocks with their different shapes and colors are particularly effective for classifying, sorting, and ordering.

(E.g. Find all the pieces that belong in the set labelled “small and square.” Look at the three shapes in the loop. How are they alike? How are they different?) Attribute blocks can also be used to explore size, fractional relationships, and area.

3-Base ten blocks, Cuisenaire® rods, Unifix® cubes, and currency can be used to help children learn a wide range of number concepts, including place value, addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

With the base ten block manipulative, cubes represent ones, rods represent tens, flats represent hundreds, and blocks represent thousands; so a combination of manipulative can be used to represent “twenty-five” or “two groups of ten and five ones,” etc. (E.g. Can you trade ten cubes for a rod? Two rods and five cubes is the same as one rod and how many cubes?)These types of manipulatives can use for elemantry students grde 5 to 8.