City Mouse Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Last night as I was driving home from buying some school supplies I was thinking about putting magnets on the back of my barton tiles, when something popped into my head that I thought someone here might be able to use. http://www.mathwindow.com/ It is basically a large magnetic board with a bunch of preprinted magnetic tiles with numbers and math symbols on them. The kids can use the magnets to work through a math problem without having to write anything. When this product was originally created it was designed for students who were visually impaired. I first used it when I was tracking Braille to a girl who was blind. The company now makes a set for the "math challenged" in addition to their Braille and large print sets that I have used years ago. I was thinking that I might get one for my dyslexic kid who hates to write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaJeannie Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 I also put magnets on the back of our Barton tiles...and accidentally stumbled upon the best big magnet board....our old kitchen stove back spash metal thingy that we were about to throw out after a kitchen redo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsmith Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I love this! Some days I just can't get him to put pencil to paper, and math is not something he can type on the computer. Thanks for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Just saw this post and wow, great suggestion! My son (using Barton) has dyslexia and dysgraphia. Math window looks great! Relieving him of some of his writing duties will free up his working memory resources for the actual math computations. Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herekittykitty Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Looks good! You can actually buy number magnets for very little too - either numbers printed on square tiles, or the numbers themselves. We prefer the latter, as my son does better with the 3D magnetic letter, as opposed to the square with the 2D print on it. There are quite a few of both kinds on Amazon and Learning Resources. We've also used this for math without writing: http://www.funbrain.com/brain/MathBrain/Games/ScratchPadMathBasketball.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Will look into the difference between the 2D print and the 3D option....thanks for pointing that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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