Manipulatives

Hands-on materials for math education

pentominoes

Henri Picciotto

A brief introduction

Virtual Manipulatives: Base 10 Blocks; Geoboard; Circle Geoboard; Grid Paper; Lab Gear; Pentominoes; Tangrams
About: Part 1 | Part 2
Online unit: Symmetry Labs
Online games:: Signed Numbers Arithmetic; Complex Numbers Arithmetic

Hands-on activities

On this site

Algebra Lab Gear (many links there!)

Geometry Labs | Geometry Labs template

Circle-Trig Geoboard: Angles and Triangles in a Circle; The Ten-Centimeter Circle; SmartBoard Notebook File

Pattern Blocks: Dodecagons; Wallpaper Starters; Pattern Block Trains; Angles Around a Point; Walking Convex Polygons; SmartBoard Gallery

Geometric Puzzles (many links!)

Ten-Sided Dice: Rolling Dice

Cubes: Integrating y=x²

Pent (strategy game)

Elsewhere: Working with Pentominoes by Henri Picciotto; Zome: George Hart | Zometool

More on manipulatives

Related pages on this site:: Symmetry; Kinesthetic Activities; For a Tool-Rich Pedagogy; The Well-Chosen Rectangle (Fraction Arithmetic); My Books; Algebra; Geometry

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