http://www.thecreativehomeschool.com/2009/03/make-your-own-math-manipulatives/ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:24:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.thecreativehomeschool.com/2009/03/make-your-own-math-manipulatives/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Mandi Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:43:36 +0000 http://www.thecreativehomeschool.com/?p=61#comment-37 Fun ideas for math! I had my kids set up their own sweet shop by making paper sweets; candies, cakes, pastries, etc. and pricing them. The older kids ran the store to practice adding and counting back change. The younger ones were the customers and learned the value of the different coins and some basic addition. I let them keep all of it in a ziploc bag and every once in a while they get it out again to 'play store'. Fun ideas for math!
I had my kids set up their own sweet shop by making paper sweets; candies, cakes, pastries, etc. and pricing them. The older kids ran the store to practice adding and counting back change. The younger ones were the customers and learned the value of the different coins and some basic addition. I let them keep all of it in a ziploc bag and every once in a while they get it out again to ‘play store’.

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