The Role of Manipulatives and Symbols
> Perspectives and Resources:
Lesson Plans
Issues Matrix
Student work
Index of Teacher Interviews
Video of Lesson Sequence:
Day 1-
Visualizing two-dimensional drawings of three-dimensional shapes
Day 2-
Determining the number of cubes required to fill a box
Day 3-
Informal explorations of the impact of dimension on volume of a box
Articles:
Thompson, P. W. (1994). Concrete materials and teaching for understanding.
Arithmetic Teacher, 41
(9), 556-558.
Links:
NCTM
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