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Poll Question: What are your children's favorite math manipulatives?
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10 [24.39%]
3 [7.32%]
1 [2.44%]
6 [14.63%]
4 [9.76%]
1 [2.44%]
8 [19.51%]
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What manipultatives do your children most enjoy using? Any great ideas for using different manipulaitves you'd like to share?

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How about a deck of cards?

We've been playing A LOT of the card game War with our 5yo and his speed at knowing which number holds the great number is amazing.

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Other-Montessori golden beads, number cards, and colored bead bars and chains. Also the stamp game is a HUGE help. The division board is great and also we use a hundred board a LOT.

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My kids' favorite math manipulative by far are Zomes. They go in phases, building lots of stuff with them and then they leave them alone for a bit. I try to use them whenever we are covering geometry in MEP.

Next favorite are polyhedral dice. I think because there's motion and randomness involved they really like to play dice games. I like the book Polyhedra Dice Games. Each page is a game board, so I removed all the pages from the binding and put each one in a sheet protector. This way the pages are protected and you can use a dry erase marker to write on them, as some of the games require.

Third would be our animal counters. They use them for math and they set them up around the room for whatever imaginative game they are playing when not in "school" time

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I chose other. We enjoy a combination of math manipulates here. We enjoy Montessori materials, especially the decanomial bead box and the golden bead materials.

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My kids' favorite math manipulative by far are Zomes.

We use these a lot as well!!!! And just love them!!! All my kids love them, but I have one child that is very mechanically minded, and he especially enjoys these!! They're amazing!

We have math logic games on Fridays and we really enjoy Equations: The Game of Creative Mathematics and Configurations. I like a number of the logic games from Wff'n Proof, but the math games are our favorite.

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Legos here. They are counters, base ten blocks, geometry shapes, fraction bars, etc.

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Well, I voted for the MUS blocks, but I must say I really like using a deck of cards...not only can you play War, like Angie was mentioning (teaching greater/less than), you can do addition war where if the child gets the addition problem right (from two cards dealt) they win the pile, otherwise Mom wins the pile!

I like to use the number cards from an Uno deck once they get beyond needing to "count" everything on the cards to add them (plus, the extra "spots" from the suits can be confusing).
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I use whatever is handy usually.

My favorite was my oldest learning to count by counting the clothespins as she handed them to me while I was hanging out the laundry.

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I don't know that this is a manipulative per se, but my eldest dd loves, loves the game Blokus. My 2nd dd could spend an endless amt. of time with the RS geoboard as well as the interlocking cubes and pattern blocks from the Critical Thinking Co.. I also found a Melissa & Doug-ish large wooden geoboard with wide rubber bands at TJ Maxx years ago that our 4th dd especially loves...it came with a set of patterns for making shapes, letters and numbers...great for hand-eye coordination. But I think that, across the board, the RS abacus (and another wooden one from TJ Maxx that stands upright, the frame of which I painted in red and painted the beads blue & yellow to match the RS abacus) is the manipulative of choice at our house. :)

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my "other" vote was for "all of the above and more. often all at once."

oh wait. did you mean for SCHOOL math? OK, maybe not all for schoolwork math (we're using RightStart) but we love manipulatives in playtime math, IYKWIM. before I knew what program we'd end be using, I picked up myriad manipulatives. I keep them available on the shelves, so my son builds Cuisinaire cabins and my daughter plays her version of sudoko/bingo with some really cool (Japanese I think?) number boards with magnetic tiles. the abacus and play money are in constant use for play store/barter games, and they think GeoBoards are toys ... in fact, they'd probably be offended if I pulled one out during school time.

so yes. "other" with a vengeance. and hopefully we're learning some math at the same time.

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Keep the votes coming! Feel free to vote for as many manipulatives as you use. For example, check Legos and vote. Check abacas and vote. Thanks!

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Our favorites are definitely legos and math-u-see blocks. We tend to use the math u see blocks *as* legos more often than as math manipulatives, though.   

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Two more days to vote!

Thanks for voting and sharing your great math manipulative finds.

Love,

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I voted other. We definitely use legos, money and counters a lot, but our latest fun math toys are good old toothpicks. My oldest has been learning to do tally marks ever since he watched DH score a baseball game that way and we use toothpicks as the marks. He asks to start with tallies every single day lately!

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