More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Math manipulatives, or math tools as our students call them, offer students the opportunity to discover new mathematical thinking by manipulating objects to help build their understanding of new concepts.
Learning in our large, multi-age classroom is anything but typical! If you were to walk in our room, you would see seven, eight, and nine year olds all around the room learning in small groups with teachers or their peers. Our math instruction is done in small groups, and we are most often using tools to help us figure out our newest concept.
The math tools in this project will allow us to deepen our understanding of mathematical concepts. Our students will have the opportunity to explore tools that we don’t currently have access to, and play games that will solidify their understanding of the material that we’ve learned.
These manipulatives will allow us to meet the needs of many different types of learners. We would be able to use the dice to teach place value or play fast facts with the playing cards to help us learn our addition/subtraction and multiplication/division facts. Our class would be able to use the fraction magnets and travel around the school to find real life examples of fractions in our everyday life. Students can use the 3-D and form shapes to create their own math games. We know that many of our students learn mathematics best when they use an approach that introduces a concrete representation before they can begin to think of mathematics concepts in abstract ways.
Math manipulatives will allow our students this opportunity by giving them the means to explore new concepts through hands-on activities. These manipulatives will help clarify the instruction for students that need it, which we hope will help all learners feel successful in math!
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Math manipulatives, or math tools as our students call them, offer students the opportunity to discover new mathematical thinking by manipulating objects to help build their understanding of new concepts.
Learning in our large, multi-age classroom is anything but typical! If you were to walk in our room, you would see seven, eight, and nine year olds all around the room learning in small groups with teachers or their peers. Our math instruction is done in small groups, and we are most often using tools to help us figure out our newest concept.
The math tools in this project will allow us to deepen our understanding of mathematical concepts. Our students will have the opportunity to explore tools that we don’t currently have access to, and play games that will solidify their understanding of the material that we’ve learned.
These manipulatives will allow us to meet the needs of many different types of learners. We would be able to use the dice to teach place value or play fast facts with the playing cards to help us learn our addition/subtraction and multiplication/division facts. Our class would be able to use the fraction magnets and travel around the school to find real life examples of fractions in our everyday life. Students can use the 3-D and form shapes to create their own math games. We know that many of our students learn mathematics best when they use an approach that introduces a concrete representation before they can begin to think of mathematics concepts in abstract ways.
Math manipulatives will allow our students this opportunity by giving them the means to explore new concepts through hands-on activities. These manipulatives will help clarify the instruction for students that need it, which we hope will help all learners feel successful in math!