Students in Christine Cemelli's fourth grade class at Valley Road School in Clark use manipulatives to subtract during an Everyday Math lesson. The students learned different strategies to subtract ...

Teachers often use manipulatives—boxes, shapes, figures and games—which students can handle during in-class activities to explain math and science concepts. A colleague of mine forwarded me a link to ...

Learning toys have become big business in the United States. At home and in their classrooms, children use plastic letters to master the alphabet, interlocking blocks to learn arithmetic and the ...