Manipulatives are hands-on tools that help students figure out simple or complex math problems. Teachers commonly use brightly colored plastic or wooden blocks as manipulatives, but you can use any concrete object, including small plastic fruits, little pieces of candy or toothpicks. When students first see an addition problem, the concept is foreign to them. It can be difficult for them to visualize a situation in which a quantity is added to another quantity. Through the aid of manipulatives, teachers can demonstrate how the concept works. If a student is trying to determine what two plus two is, he can easily solve the problem by taking two manipulatives then taking two more. Then all he has to do is count to determine the sum of the numbers.
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