iTools

iTools

The page opens to ten tabs that you can choose from to find manipulatives.  The categories are listed below:

• Counters
• Base-Ten Blocks
• Number Lines
• Number Charts
• Graphs
• Fractions
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Algebra
• Probability

Once you choose a tab, the page open to an empty board where you can use the manipulatives. Then, once you're on the empty board, there is a tab at the top of the page called "activities".  You can click that and choose from different mathematical activities using the manipulatives.  For example, when you open the geometry board, you have access to units, rods, flats and 1,000 block.  Then, you have several activity options to do with those blocks (such as add, subtract and compare).  Or, if you choose the graphs tab, the activities give you the option of using several different graphs (pie graphs, bar graphs, etc.).  In the classroom, this would be an awesome tool to use when modeling with students how to use manipulatives to solve problems while students are working independently with these manipulatives.  This could also be up on a smartboard for a centers activity for students.

Standards:

These interactive manipulatives could be used in grades K-6, and they could address the following mathematical domains: counting, operations and algebraic thinking, numbers and operations in base-ten, numbers and operations - fractions, measurement and data, measurement and probability.