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MATH & MANIPULATIVES
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| It is important for a young child to develop a foundation of experiences with and concepts about
quantitive relationships. Mathematics understandings are based on skills developed through activities
such as matching, one-to-one correspondence, grouping, classifying, and sequencing.
These skills can be gained from using manipulative materials of all kinds. Children learn what
numbers stand for by handling and counting concrete objects. The early childhood room should also be
filled with opportunities to practice coordinating what the eye sees with what the hand can do:
things to put in and take out, fit, match, connect and disconnect.
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