This manipulatives website has several different features. It allows you to choose a grade level from Pre-K through 8th grade. Then, you can choose a "background", which are game boards, story boards or workmats. Lastly, you can choose your manipulative; you can choose anything from a balance with weights to money to tangrams and pattern blocks. This resource could be used in a variety of ways in the classroom. It could used during whole group instruction on the smartboard to introduce a mathematical concept to students while simultaneously modeling how to use certain manipulatives. It could also be used as independent practice for students by posing a question, having students solve it at their seat on a white board and then come up to the board and solve it for the whole class with manipulatives. Furthermore, in the "gameboards" section on the "backgrounds" tab, students can play a game as one of their math centers for added practice or they can be used as a whole class, perhaps as a review game before a test.
Standards:
These virtual manipulatives can be used to address a multitude of across grade levels in the following domains: counting and cardinality, operations and algebraic thinking, number and operation in base ten, number and operations - fractions, the number system, ratios and proportional relationships, expressions and equations, functions, measurement and data, geometry, statistics and probability.
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