One of the things we like to try and do nowadays is to have our students represent their understanding in a variety of ways. This is especially the case in math.
When I first started teaching (about 10 years ago) I really only had a few different concrete manipulatives available to me to teach number sense. The one trustee resource I always turned to was the base ten blocks ~ Wow, how times of changed!
This past week I have been working with some grade 1-2s to build and represent numbers using an online manipulative website provide by
Glencoe - McGraw Hill Education.
The students were able to build numbers at their own level by choosing an appropriate manipulative to suit them. Here are some examples in more details:
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| Bears in a Boat reinforces building tens with 10s frames |
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| Students used the bears if they were working with numbers to 20 |
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| The virtual Base Ten Blocks allowed students to build bigger numbers. |
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| Students were also able to design their own base ten counting manipulatives - This student used counters |
We were able to 'keep' or save each representation by taking screen shots (Command⌘ +Shift+4) of the numbers we built. We then added them a Comic Life document to show a variety of numbers.
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