I want to thank everyone who is sharing the ideas for manipulatives. I have
been passing them on to my colleague who is not in the discussion. Today he
mentioned this one:

I did this activity where you give them 5 toothpicks to create a triangle
and ask them to identify it.  It has to be an isosceles.  Then I added
another toothpick, and the only one they can make is an equilateral. This
time some made hexagons! However, I was able to get a lot of mileage out of
that and do some work on the properties of each plane figure ­ number of
sides, number of angles, vertices, etc. It was an appropriate digression
that came from the students.

Margaret Rogers and Tom Brewer
Sacramento, CA




On 9/20/07 10:29 AM, "Stephanie Shultz" <sshultz at telamon.org> wrote:


> I also taught in a low budget Adult Ed program. I made a complete set of

> equivalent fraction bars for my students using colored heavy construction

> paper. I had one strip that represented one whole. It was in one color. Then,

> using another color I made models for ½ of the original whole. Using a third

> color, I made a whole sheet of models of the whole divided into thirds.. I

> continued this way for several other fractional parts. I think I made the

> original templates on plain white paper and just filled the photocopy machine

> with a different color for each set of the fractions that I wanted the

> students to have. I cut out the strips and put the sets, which were now a

> collection of many different colors representing different fractions, in

> envelopes. The students used them when we talked about the basic definition of

> a fraction, for ordering fractions, naming equivalent fractions and for adding

> and subtracting fractions. It was definitely very cheap and as I recall

> effective enough for the work we were doing.

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> From: specialtopics-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:specialtopics-bounces at nifl.gov]

> On Behalf Of Rose Steiner

> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:31 PM

> To: specialtopics at nifl.gov

> Subject: [SpecialTopics 699] Re: Components of Numeracy

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> Kate (and others),

> 

> You mentioned  "we had the appropriate manipulatives for ­halves, quarters,

> eighths, sixteenths, thirds, sixths, twelfths, fifths, and tenths."

> 

> What exactly do you consider the appropriate manipulatives for these

> fractions?   Are there inexpensive ones that work well?  So many of our sites

> in Montana have limited funds and I am sure we are not alone.

> 

> We have used egg cartons (12 and 18 egg size) for many of these fractions.

> But to do all of these, our class would need to make some adaptations to the

> cartons (i.e. cover up some of the egg slots so that are not a part of the

> whole, etc).   

> 

> I look forward to trying your 10 pages with my students.  ;-)

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> Thanks

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> Rose Steiner

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> I am enjoying this great discussion on the special topic of numeracy...

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