by MathPickle | Dec 30, 2025 |
Can you figure out the rules for Roll Reversal by just looking at this sample? We’ll explain the rules on the next few pages, but sometimes it’s fun to get your students to flex their inductive problem-solving muscles! We are going to use Cuisenaire rods....
by MathPickle | Sep 19, 2015 |
Zome Zome is a manipulative that is excellent for the upper grades – however it takes time to put away and is fragile. Nevertheless, there is no manipulative so versatile on the market, so it should be considered. I am now equally in favour (especially for...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Unifix cubes. (MathPickle, 2011) Use Unifix to play with patterns. One new unifix mime vignette I did with kindergarten children in 2013 was to enter a new classroom with unifix cubes sorted out in color piles. I lay down in the middle of the cubes. The teacher hit a...
by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
Zome is a fragile, but flexible manipulative. I now use Space Chips more than Zome in elementary school, but Zome has got a seriousness that Space Chips cannot match....
by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
This robust manipulative is excellent to give students a quick blast of 3D geometry. The other manipulative that I use in classrooms is Zome. The advantages of Zome are that it is more flexible. It is a tool that can be used by serious mathematicians. The advantages...
