Making numbers: Issues in using manipulatives with young children

Sue Gifford (1) , Rose Griffiths (2) , Jenni Back (2)

1 University of Roehampton, United Kingdom
2 University of Leicester

The Making Numbers research Project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, has developed guidance for teachers of 3 to 9 year olds on the use of manipulatives in the teaching of arithmetic. The project, which consisted of a literature review, survey of teacher use and small-scale teaching investigations, identified key principles and issues for the use of manipulatives. This paper gives a brief overview of project findings, which are reported elsewhere, and discusses issues relating to the early years from the literature review.

Mots clés: Early childhood mathematics; finger counting; patterns; representations; manipulatives

Domaines: Mathématiques [math]; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Sue Gifford, Rose Griffiths, Jenni Back. Making numbers: Issues in using manipulatives with young children. CERME 10, Feb 2017, Dublin, Ireland. ⟨hal-01938938⟩