Hands-on instructional materials, such as blocks, play money, or geometrically-shaped items, which enhance student learning.
Three-dimensional teaching aids and visuals that teachers use to help students with math concepts. Typical tools include counting beads or bars, base ten blocks, shapes, fraction parts, and rulers.
Tools, models, blocks, tiles, and other objects which are used to explore mathematical ideas and solve mathematical problems.
Materials that allow students to explore mathematics concepts in a concrete mode.
Materials such as blocks, tiles, and "Cuisenaire" rods believed to add a "multi-sensory" dimension to learning math. Coins, beads, and beans can also be used to learn addition and subtraction.
Hands-on learning materials that help students understand concepts.
Item that can be used to help convey a mathematical concept (e.g., bingo chips, playing cards, yardsticks, or dice, etc.).
Objects (such as buttons or Popsicle sticks) that can be moved around by students to help understand various concepts, especially mathematical ones.
Objects that students handle and use in constructing their own understanding of mathematical concepts and skills and in illustrating that understanding. Some examples are base ten blocks, centicubes, construction kits, dice, games, geoboards, geometric solids, hundreds charts, measuring tapes, number lines, pattern blocks, spinners, and tiles.
Devices such as blocks or cards designed to help children learn and understand concepts by manipulating the objects, e.g. counting sticks are used to learn math facts
Physical objects that can be used to help solve mathematical problems (e.g., tangrams, base ten blocks, number cubes, cards, rulers, counters, pattern blocks, cubes).
