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Discover Mathigon, the Mathematical Playground. Learning mathematics has never been so interactive and fun!

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Online manipulatives bring all of the learning and fun without the mess. Our math virtual manipulatives help students grasp abstract concepts through modeling. Literacy virtual manipulatives create a fun space for practicing spelling, rhyming, and more!

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Virtual Manipulatives | Mathematical Modelling | Toy Theater

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Original teaching tools aimed at supporting teachers in the elementary school classroom. Two color counters, 3D dice, probability spinners, graph builders, fraction bars, base ten blocks, and more!

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Any suggestions, comments on the toolkit4maths welcome here

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Interactive Clock | Analog Clock | Digital | Movable | Teaching Clock | Visnos

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Visnos interactive clock. Simple tool to teach telling the time using a colorful classroom analog clock. Show equivalent digital clock time. Learn about hours, minutes, and seconds step by step. Simply click and drag the movable hands. The clock can also be used to teach about fractions and angles.

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Introduction to Visual Numbers

At Visnos we belief that mathematical concepts are much easier to understand when shown visually. Our activities provide interactive animated graphics to explain various concepts. For example the multiplication tables can be represented by tropical fish. The fish swim in and out of the tables to show different products. If a child can form a clear mental picture of what a calculation means. They are much more likely to both remember and the understand the process. The more abstract mathematical language be shown alongside the visual explanation.

Interactive teaching resources

The interactive mathematical demonstrations can be used effectively for whole class teaching on an interactive white board. For smaller groups a PC or laptop is equally effective. Currently there are activities for addition and subtraction facts, angles, measurement using a protractor, telling the time, multiplication and division. Types of numbers such as factors, multiples, square and triangular. New resources are being added on a regular basis.

Progressive Web App

The latest update allows Visnos to be installed, giving an app like desktop experience.

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Visnos interactive whiteboard materials for use in teaching mathematics. Animated activities can teach key concepts numbers factors multiples primes

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For students, decimals are often a challenging concept to grasp. This interactive decimal strips tool helps students model and visualize decimals. When using the online decimal strips tool, students can model, explore, and compare decimals. Additionally, the decimal strips are a useful interactive tool for modeling and solving operations involving decimals.

Using the interactive decimal strips tool is easy. Simply drag the decimal strips on or off the canvas. Modify the chart so that two whole units can be displayed by clicking on the "Unit Double" button. Write on the canvas using the pencil button and click on the eraser symbol to erase. To clear the whole canvas, click on the trash can symbol.

Here are a few suggestions for using the interactive decimal strips tool:

Ask students to model a given decimal such as .25 or .70

Ask students to model and solve an operation involving decimals.

Invite students to drag various decimals onto the canvas and compare their values. You can even have students write statements using , and = signs.

Visit classplayground.com for related decimal printables such as strips, decimal place value charts, and more.

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Decimal Strips | Free Virtual Manipulatives | Toy Theater

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This interactive decimal strips tool brings the topic to life so students can visualize, model, and explore decimals. Plus, it's free!

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Fraction walls are a great way to teach about fractions and in particular equivalent fractions. In a fraction wall each row or layer of the wall represents one whole number. The layers are divided into a number of bricks and hence each brick represents a fraction whose denominator is equal to the number of bricks in that layer. Each brick can be turned on or off by clicking it. This wall also allows the display of decimal and percentage values. To the right of the wall are boxes which can be hidden, the value of each box is fraction of the wall that has been turned on.

Selecting different walls

When you launch this interactive teaching program the initial wall is a mixed one showing 3 distinct fraction families. Change the wall by using the mode control. 'Large' displays a wall in which the layers are split 1,2,3 up to 12. The others split the wall along 2s, 3s or 5s. The 5s also includes a lower wall of 100 bricks, this naturally works quite well in explaining percentages since each brick represent ¹⁄ ₁₀₀ or 1%.

Fractions, decimals or percentages

Use the display type control to display decimals (rounded to 2dp), percentages (rounded to 1dp), fractions or none.

The equivalent fraction control

Normally when you click a brick to turn it on or off, only that brick is affected. However if you turn on the equivalent fraction function by clicking the 'Eq' toggle button. Now when a brick is clicked the other layers will turn on bricks if they can match an equivalent fraction. Note, this is not always possible, in fact if you select the primes wall it is never possible to show an equivalent fraction. In this case all the other layers have bricks turned off.

Least Common Multiple

Also known as 'the lowest common multiple' or 'smallest common multiple' is crucial when adding, subtracting or comparing fractions. This button will calculate the LCM based on the rows that have active bricks. Pressing the LCM button will create a new wall that contains the originally selected fraction but also a new layer with the number of divisions equalling the least common multiple of the denominators of the other rows. Sounds complicated, but it really just means that it is always possible to create an equivalent fraction in the LCM row from the other rows.

Other controls

The other controls are

'On' button when clicked will turn on all the bricks

'Off' button when clicked will turn off all the bricks

'Random' button creates a randomized wall in which roughly half the bricks are on. Usually you would hide the totals before pressing this and then the class can work out each fraction in the random wall.

' < ' button will align all the bricks to the left hand side of the wall. This is often pressed after using the randomize function. Fractions can then be compared by considering the length of each row of on bricks.

hide totals click to hide all the totals. The individuals total can then be clicked to show the value.

show totals reveal all the totals.

Advanced Section

To show or hide the advanced section click the advanced toggle button

When the advance controls are on, each layer of the wall has a dedicated slider, move this to change the number the number of bricks in that layer.

Automatic 1 button when clicked create a new wall by dividing the top layer by all its ascending prime factors. So for example if you move the top slider so the top layer has 42 bricks and then click the button. The primefactors of 42 are 2,3 and 7. So the second layer will have 42÷2=21 bricks, the third layer will have 21÷3=7 bricks and the final layer will have 7÷7= 1 brick.

Automatic 2 is similar but creates a layer for every factor of the top layer value.

Add Layer adds a new layer to the bottom of the wall.

total type select control will change the type of total to display. The default is to match what the wall shows, so in this case if the wall is showing fraction the total will be a fraction. But using this control it is now possible for fractions to be shown in the wall but the total to be given as a percentage.

Further fractions

Closely related to this activity is the percentage fraction and decimals grid, which can be used to display a square or circle fraction representation.

Other activities that can be used to teach fractions are the clock activity which uses the clock face to show the fraction of minutes passed in an hour. Launch the activity and select the fractions mode, this mode also show equivalent fractions for example ³⁰⁄ ₆₀ = ¹⁄ ₂. The number explorer activity can show the fraction resulting from division of a number.

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Interactive Fraction Wall | online fraction | percentage | decimal | visnos

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Online fraction wall, easily display fractions using interactive white board. Simple to explore fraction,decimals and percentages . Step by step view equivalent fractions. Beautiful display which children love.

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Graph Color | Teaching Tools | Toy Theater Educational Games

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Free-style coloring tool to model arrays on a graph. Useful for teaching addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

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PMC - Oide - Welcome to the Primary Mathematics Curriculum Hub

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Tá an mhatamaitic i ngach áit agus tá sí ann do gach duine.

Fáilte chuig ár leathanach Mion-Mata atá deartha do mhúinteoirí díograiseacha agus iad ag lorg acmhainní dinimiciúla. Fiosraigh bailiúchán saibhir gníomhaíochtaí Mion-Mata agus iad leagtha amach i mbileoga eolais le naisc úsáideacha agus le gailearaithe íomhánna a chuireann ábhair atá réidh le húsáid ar fáil i do sheomra ranga.

Faoi láthair, tá na gníomhaíochtaí Mion-Mata á n-aistriú go Gaeilge. Beidh siad ar fáil ar an Mol chomh luath is a bheidh siad aistrithe.

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Fáilte chuig ár leathanach Mion-Mata atá deartha do mhúinteoirí díograiseacha agus iad ag lorg acmhainní dinimiciúla.

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Arrow Cards is a tablet-friendly place value teaching tool.

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Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars

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Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games, which are against the clock, challenge and develop mental maths skills. An untimed, practise mode is available in our Hit the Button app along with lots more extra features.

The activities can be matched to appropriate mathematical ability. Regular use of Hit the Button can help students to sharpen their recall of vital number facts in a fun way and learning multiplication tables need not be boring.

AGE

6-11 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Times Tables Division Number Bonds Doubles Halves Square Numbers

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Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

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Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubles, halves, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Superb!

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Build the next image to continue a sequence of visual patterns. Make mathematical predictions about later figures in the pattern.

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Fractions lets students use a bar or circle to represent fractions.

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A huge collection of virtual manipulatives. Algebra Tiles, Dienes Blocks, Cuisenaire Rods, Geoboards, Counters, and much more.