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Oologah Upper Elementary School
Oologah, OK
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All 'Hands-On' Deck Math Exploration
Funded Nov 5, 2022
Thank you so much for the new math manipulatives (All Hands On Deck) you put into the hands of my students in our resource math class. My students have been using the magnetic fraction bars and circles as we progressed through our fraction unit. Students that have been too shy or lacked confidence have suddenly started volunteering to use the magnetic fractions to work problems and answer them- even in front of their peers- and that is huge for these kiddos who have differing degrees of abilities. I have one 4th grader who was especially excited when she finally understood equivalent fractions by being able to compare fractions with the magnetic bars and circles!
When my boxes of new materials arrived, I left them unopened on the table so that they could share in the excitement of opening them together with me. Opening the boxes together and unpacking our new goodies truly helped ignite their curiosity about how they were going to get to use them in class. They immediately wanted to open EVERYTHING and start using the Magnitiles, volume cubes, magnetic fraction pieces, geometric shapes and so on! Kids that really struggle with math were suddenly interested in "what are we going to do with these things?".
We are going back through units as we review for the end of the year and my students have specifically asked for their manipulatives to use to practice things like finding volume and area. Again, we are so thankful that they have these tools to build a better foundation in math!
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With gratitude,
Mrs. Young
This classroom project was brought to life by Oklahoma State Department of Education.

Hands on manipulatives will allow my resource room students to see, touch, and manipulate volume, area, perimeter, fractions, multiplication and more instead of just imagining these concepts while solving problems on paper or electronic devices, which is often a huge struggle for them. These concrete representations will help create a solid base of knowledge of these often hard to grasp concepts, giving them a strong foundation at an early age. Struggling students need to see and touch their mathematics in order to truly grasp the standards we are trying to solidify in them. Being able to fold and unfold shapes to count faces, edges, vertices and nets; being able to use Magna tiles to construct and then solve to find area and perimeter along with identifying and measuring angles and being able to use cubes to understand volume gives my students such a base knowledge of geometry skills before going on to higher level math. Using giant magnetic fraction pieces not only gives my learners a hands on approach to fractions, but it enables me to place these giant fractions on my white board for my in-person learners to manipulate and my on-line learners to "see" what I am explaining on videos or zoom calls. All of these geometry skills are hard to teach/learn when students are not in the same room with you. Using manipulatives during a video is a huge help. Being able to add these elements of see and touch to my resource room math class would help me reach so many more students than by just using traditional and even technology methods.

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