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Direct linkMead, Kelly C. – Teaching Pre K-8, 2006
In this article, the author relates how she designed a math activity she called Beads to use in conjunction with their school's 100th day celebration. Beads has provided her kindergarten class with many opportunities to practice a variety of math skills - counting, patterning, sorting, comparing, making sets, predicting, identifying numerals,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
MacKernan, Jon; MacKernan, Katrina – Mathematics Teaching, 2000
Presents an activity for weaving polyhedron shapes out of paper strips. (MVL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geometric Concepts, Manipulative Materials, Mathematics Activities
Peer reviewedMoyer, Patricia S.; Bolyard, Johnna J.; Spikell, Mark A. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2002
Defines virtual manipulatives and stresses their advantages for classroom use. Presents examples on the Internet and discusses current and potential use of virtual manipulatives. (KHR)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet, Manipulative Materials
Bronsil, Matt – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2005
This article discusses how children learn to understand the decimal system in very concrete ways, while having fun using beads. When counting the beads, the children learn 5,491 is not simply "five thousand four hundred and ninety-one" but actually 5 thousands, 4 hundreds, 9 tens, and 1 unit. They begin to understand that as they get 10 units,…
Descriptors: Computation, Arithmetic, Play, Young Children
