MONOGRAPH No. l
Manipulative materials for teaching and learning mathematics
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
59 – 62
BETH BLACKALL
Anne Bernadette’s Tile came into being when a young teacher from the area of business education was presented with a Grade VII mathematics class which did not seem to appreciate textbook teaching. Each pupil was asked to acquire a the which he ruled and cut, a~useful mathematical exercise in itself. The students enjoyed manipulating their sets of shapes as they learned about classification of shapes, area, perimeter, the identification and measurement of angles and algebraic equations. As a bonus, the set quite fortuitously contained a 5-piece tangram.