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Considerations for teachers using manipulative materials

MONOGRAPH No. l

Manipulative materials for teaching and learning mathematics

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

5 – 14

Considerations for teachers using manipulative materials

ROBERT E. REYS

Classroom teachers of mathematics are witnessing an unprecedented period of proliferation in manipulative materials. Commercial catalogs list a great variety of available materials; professional journals carry many advertisements claiming that this device or that aid will provide a panacea for learning a certain mathematics topic; and professional meetings are frequently inundated with exhibits displaying new manipulative materials.