Princess5 Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 my dd is 6yo and in K. For christmas i am thinking of math manipulatives. so far i gathered from the boards and have these in my list sum swamp game set game cuisennaire rods geoboards anything else i can add on? the games of sum swamp and set will have their own instructions. but how about the cuisennaire rods and geoboards? how to use them? also what are good quality cuisennaire rods? lots of peoples reviews tell that plastic ones warp and not equal when counted, not good quality etc... also where to get them? rainbow resources looks like a place with good prices but no free shipping. i dont think i will be ordering 50$ stuff to get free shipping. ty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess5 Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 also we need to start teaching about money to dd, do you guys use real money? like real pennies, dimes etc? or get play money? if yes which is good to buy? ty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 tanagrams base 10 blocks lots of different shapes, sizes and colors of dice (from large foam standard shaped ones to smaller different shaped ones, like 8 sidedl die and 20 sided die and die inside another die, etc.) DD loves wooden cuisennaire rods (she hates the feel of the plastic ones) Unifix cubes fraction circles (great if they are magnetic and you have a magnetic dry erase board) geometric solids magna tiles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Yes you can use real money. As long as there isn't some sort of choking hazard. A cash register helps with keeping things sorted and in place. FWIW, my kids always preferred real money. I kept a designated amount of real money to use and kept it in a specific location. I made sure that when we were done playing with the money that the money was counted and went back into that specific location so we always had it on hand. Once they got older we started having them each keep their allowance in special bags with their names and when reviewing money they used what was in the bags as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 I used real money, a geared mini-clock face, an abacus (rather than something like counting bears---they all stayed together and didn't get lost in the couch!) like the one from RightStart http://www.rightstartmath.com/resources/, bundles of straws and rubber bands to show grouping and borrowing, a set of measuring cups and spoons, base 10 blocks, dice, a pack of playing cards. A nice extra is a set of wooden geometric shapes Items that are easy to print or draw and cut out on your own from construction paper or cardstock and laminate with contact paper or a laminator: hundreds chart fraction circles (making it look like pie or pizza helps a lot :) ) tangrams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 You can easily get $50 worth of stuff from RR. ;) Or maybe that's just me. You can find most of this stuff on Amazon too. Get the larger set of wooden C-rods. This one: http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/sku/008265/ac61a9b1f3883a6ec11cb560 I would also go ahead and get some base 10 hundred flats and a base 10 thousand cube: http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/sku/015319/ac61a9b1f3883a6ec11cb560 http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/sku/015318/ac61a9b1f3883a6ec11cb560 Play money bills are really cheap. We just used real coins. Set is great. We didn't love Sum Swamp. The math games that got the most use for us in the K-3rd era were: Corners Zeus on the Loose Rat-a-Tat-Cat Knock-Out Also, Going to the Dump, but you can play that with regular cards. My kids also really enjoyed their abacuses when they were K-1st. We had a big wooden one. If you get one, the ones with the beads two colors on one line (like the Right Start one) are better. Rainbow Resource has a bunch like that. Geoboards did not get a ton of use here. We did really end up using Pattern Tiles a lot for various things, especially in Pre-K-1st, but they even now in 5th grade occasionally come out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 You might look at MindWare. That catalog always has some amazing things... http://www.mindware.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountains27 Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 My son is 6 1/2 yo and doing 1st right now but is still working out addition and subtraction within 1-10 and the things we find most helpful are- these c-rods http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F8R5N2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 -some 1 and 10 blocks that click together -a basic abacus from Melissa and Doug -playing cards -dominoes, you can play a game where you match up addition sentences printed on paper to the domino with the same number groups on them (2+3=5 would match with the domino that has 2 dots on one side and 3 on the other) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellalarella Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Wooden base ten blocks are very nice to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I prefer math u see blocks to c-rods. But yes wooden is better than plastic c-rods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndOfOrdinary Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 We just used Legos. For individual counters cars worked well. Like the metal hot wheels. He drove them away to subtract, drove them over to add, natural disasters to show multiplying by zero. They were a lot more fun because he could really play with them. Cheerios work wonders as well. The "Cheerio Monster" really liked adding negative numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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