Hands-on math. Just the term itself instantly makes one think of kindergarten students playing with blocks as they add one block with another block. And this is good--kindergarten level students SHOULD be using blocks (and rocks, matchbox cars, plastic toys, etc.) to help them learn how to add. But far too often parents and teachers fall into the trap of putting away the "messy" math manipulatives way too quickly, exchanging them instead for neatly bound math workbooks with hundreds of spaces for our students to fill in. Upon finishing all the problems, we feel like they have "done the grade."
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~Susan
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