Manipulative Activities

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  1. 3. These manipulatives are flat thin disks, used for adding/subtracting in math or with Elkonin Boxes for phonemic awareness/phonics.
  2. 4. This manipulative is a fake version of something we use everyday, they are circles of different sizes and come in silver and copper, they can be used as a way to teach place values, decimals, sorting, and even financial management.
  3. 5. These kinds of magnets help students get the shape and feel of the __, good for learning the alphabet and practicing phonemic awareness/phonics.
  4. 6. These cubes can be connected to each other, used mostly in math to practice decomposing and composing, but can also be used to make letters.
  5. 8. This manipulative board has a bunch of pegs and comes with rubber bands, used for geometry to make abstract concepts easier to understand. It can also be used when learning square units and making arrays.
  6. 10. These kinds of tiles allow students to learn fractions, fractional equivalences, and add/subtract fractions.
  7. 12. This manipulative is used very often, teachers start by telling you to fold your paper hotdog/hamburger style and eventually you cut some of it so it's flippable, these are good for study use in primarily science or ELA, but can also be used in other subjects.
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  1. 1. These charts are used mainly for displaying the months/days/weather, but when used as a manipulative words can be easily moved around for sentence-building activities.
  2. 2. __organizers are used to visualize or construct ideas and can be used for any subject and can be made in many ways. (e.g. organize problems and solutions, compare and contrast ideas, show cause and effect)
  3. 7. Blocks that come in powers of ten representing ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands, primarily used to teach place value and number concepts.
  4. 9. This manipulative is geometric(or pattern)shapes that are used primarily to create patterns or designs, can also be known as tangrams.
  5. 11. This manipulative is usually on paper/board with 3-5 boxes side-by-side, used to build phonemic awareness/phonics by having students slide counters into each box for each phoneme in a word.