Overview
Virtual manipulatives and graphic organizers

Virtual Manipulatives

Print and virtual manipulatives should be used to support students. The Elementary Mathematics Office will begin to incorporate them into task pages as appropriate. Teachers can add manipulatives using the sites below. Keep in mind that print (downloadable) and virtual manipulatives are also provided on grade level mathematics courses by selecting "Course Essentials" on the homepage and then the "resource bank" tab.

Find and open a virtual manipulative from one of the libraries listed below. Copy the url once the manipulative is opened and paste it in your course with the name of the manipulative. See the example below.

Rekenrek Virtual Manipulative for support counting, adding, subtracting, and decomposing numbers.

Virtual Manipulatives from Didax

Virtual Manipulative Library from Toy Theater

Virtual Manipulatives from Mathsbot

Math Learning Center (note that you should open the web app of the manipulative and then select the url to copy/paste)

TeacherLED Library

If your students would benefit from a short tutorial of virtual tools, below are links to videos that show how to use specific virtual tools. The videos simply need to be linked, not embedded and have closed captioning.

Virtual Math Tools: Math Learning Center Vocabulary Cards

Virtual Math Tools: Math Learning Center Fraction Tool

graphic organizers

Mathematics, Special Education, and ESOL staff are collaborating to continue to improve the tools and resources provided to meet the needs of students. This section will be updated with new suggestions. Many will be naturally incorporated into the tasks/pages.

HCPSS Graphic Organizers/Process Charts for Problem Solving

The link will make a copy of the file in your Google Drive. Links can be pasted with activities and/or directions.

K-W-S Chart for problem-solving

Notice and Wonder

Three Reads

Three Reads (alternate)

Frayer for problem-solving

HCPSS Graphic Organizers for Vocabulary and Communication

The link will make a copy of the file in your Google Drive. Links can be pasted with activities and/or directions.

Frayer Model for vocabulary

Constructing Viable Arguments - Explaining Your Thinking organizer

Additional Graphic Organizers

Frayer Model: The Frayer Model can be used with any mathematics concept to make connections.

Frayer Model 2: The Frayer Model can be used with any mathematics concept to make connections.

KWL: The KWL can be modified for use with problem-solving by changing the L to R for how to represent the problem or to S for the strategy for solving the problem or M for how to model the problem. The K prompts what you know about the problem and the W prompts what you are trying to find out.

Compare and Contrast: Compare and contrast organizers can be used to make meaning of a concept by comparing/contrasting it with another.

25 Additional Graphic Organizers: This site provides additional graphic organizers.

30 Additional Graphic Organizers: This site provides additional graphic organizers.

Additional Tools

Calculators and addition or multiplication charts are useful for supporting computational accuracy.

Addition Chart

Multiplication Chart

Calculator

Edit the page to callout essential vocabulary before the video.

Virtual Glossary/Dictionary

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