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Thinking Deeply about Primary Education

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Growing Use of Math Manipulatives in Education

Virtual manipulatives, particularly algebra tiles and place value counters, have seen significant growth in usage in recent years. These manipulatives are being extensively used in both secondary and primary education. While question generators remain the most used, manipulators have grown in popularity due to promotion by various organizations. Place value counters, in particular, have surpassed deans blocks in usage, possibly because they serve as a stepping stone between concrete representations and abstract symbols, and are more practical for digital use.

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Very special friends. I mean, we've not talked about the virtual minitudes. That's got to be like one of the biggest. It's not the most used, but like the question generators are still the most used, but the manipulators have grown massively in recent years, because obviously they've been quite, quite a bit nationally as well. I think loads of organizations have been promoting them. So yeah, they are used quite extensively now. In particular, like the algebra tiles have been used, which is nice. In secondary and the big one in primary is the, well, I'm guessing it's primary. Place value counters have been used loads now on mass pot. A lot more than the deans blocks, which I find interested. Because essentially you can only understand place value counters once you understand place value, because all the counters are the same size. And deans blocks gives you that relative size of each one. So I always think place values are just like a little stepping stone between the deans blocks and the abstract. They're basically just abstract symbols that you can move around. So I guess probably because you can fit thousands on the screen, a lot easier because they're nice and small and discreet.

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