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Manipulatives and Mathematics: A Thinking Deeply about Mathematics Education Panel

Thinking Deeply about Primary Education

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Deans Blocks Are a Virtual Reality Model Isn't It?

With a real one you can just like push and shove them around until they become like tanks it's the same same manipulative it just works differently virtually with all of these. I call it rectangle or I something yeah it is when you factorizing your sometimes a trial and error for they get that right angle as well before you can get but with a real one  it's harder on the camera to do it than an 2D model. If you gave me a set of deans tiles rather than actual deans blocks just flat deans blocks I'll probably get a lot of the utility out of them without ever having to use the extra dimension that they have which is why I guess they're

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