Manipulatives and Mathematics: A Thinking Deeply about Mathematics Education Panel
Thinking Deeply about Primary Education
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Do Virtual Manipulatives Work as Well as Physical Manipulations?
It depends and it's sometimes they will work just as well. For example, anything involving three dimensions, like volumes and things like that, using the cues and erodes in real life are probably going to be better for that. There's a paper that Kieran shared I'm sure you can dig out which basically said that in some instances putting the physical, physical, manipulative behind of like sort of pane of glass help the students grasp the concept better than if they could actually touch the object. So there's it's it's not clear cut there's there's use cases for both of them.
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