Evaluating Math Manipulatives

I got a message the other day asking my thoughts on a math manipulative called Numicon. I’ve never used that particular math manipulative but it got me thinking about what I would look at while I was using it to decide if it was a good manipulative to have my kids use.

I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist, and today we are going to take a look at Evaluating Math Manipulatives, in our quest to Build our own Math Minds so we can Build the Math Minds of our kiddos.

When we are all really scarce for time and money, it's important to make decisions about what you're going to spend your time and money on to help your students build their math minds. So here's 3 things that I look at when I am trying to evaluate a math manipulative.