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<FONT FACE="Verdana">I want to thank everyone who is sharing the ideas for manipulatives. I have been passing them on to my colleague who is not in the discussion. Today he mentioned this one:<BR>
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I did this activity where you give them 5 toothpicks to create a triangle and ask them to identify it. It has to be an isosceles. Then I added another toothpick, and the only one they can make is an equilateral. This time some made hexagons! However, I was able to get a lot of mileage out of that and do some work on the properties of each plane figure – number of sides, number of angles, vertices, etc. It was an appropriate digression that came from the students.<BR>
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Margaret Rogers and Tom Brewer<BR>
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On 9/20/07 10:29 AM, "Stephanie Shultz" <sshultz@telamon.org> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">I also taught in a low budget Adult Ed program. I made a complete set of equivalent fraction bars for my students using colored heavy construction paper. I had one strip that represented one whole. It was in one color. Then, using another color I made models for ½ of the original whole. Using a third color, I made a whole sheet of models of the whole divided into thirds.. I continued this way for several other fractional parts. I think I made the original templates on plain white paper and just filled the photocopy machine with a different color for each set of the fractions that I wanted the students to have. I cut out the strips and put the sets, which were now a collection of many different colors representing different fractions, in envelopes. The students used them when we talked about the basic definition of a fraction, for ordering fractions, naming equivalent fractions and for adding and subtracting fractions. It was definitely very cheap and as I recall effective enough for the work we were doing. <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma"><B>From:</B> specialtopics-bounces@nifl.gov [mailto:specialtopics-bounces@nifl.gov] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Rose Steiner<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:31 PM<BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> [SpecialTopics 699] Re: Components of Numeracy<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">Kate (and others),<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">You mentioned </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT COLOR="#000080"> "we had the appropriate manipulatives for –halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, thirds, sixths, twelfths, fifths, and tenths." <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">What exactly do you consider the appropriate manipulatives for these fractions? Are there <B>inexpensive</B> ones that work well? So many of our sites in Montana have limited funds and I am sure we are not alone.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">We have used egg cartons (12 and 18 egg size) for many of these fractions. But to do all of these, our class would need to make some adaptations to the cartons (i.e. cover up some of the egg slots so that are not a part of the whole, etc). <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">I look forward to trying your 10 pages with my students. ;-)<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">Thanks<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">I am enjoying this great discussion on the special topic of numeracy...<BR>
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