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A Floor Game That Teaches Colors, Counting, and Fine Motor Skills

A Floor Game That Teaches Colors, Counting, and...

Young children learn best when the whole body is involved. A simple floor game combines drawing, building, counting, and color matching into one adventure your preschooler can share with you

A Floor Game That Teaches Colors, Counting, and...

Young children learn best when the whole body is involved. A simple floor game combines drawing, building, counting, and color matching into one adventure your preschooler can share with you

How to Teach Counting and Comparing Numbers with Hands-On Math Blocks

How to Teach Counting and Comparing Numbers wit...

Counting fish and matching numbers is where early math begins. Switch-Its magnetic dry erase blocks let students count, label, and compare groups by hand — switching until the answer is...

How to Teach Counting and Comparing Numbers wit...

Counting fish and matching numbers is where early math begins. Switch-Its magnetic dry erase blocks let students count, label, and compare groups by hand — switching until the answer is...

How to Teach Fractions with Hands-On Math Blocks

How to Teach Fractions with Hands-On Math Blocks

Fractions are hard to visualize on paper. When students build fraction models by hand and line them up side by side, the comparison becomes something they can see and touch,...

How to Teach Fractions with Hands-On Math Blocks

Fractions are hard to visualize on paper. When students build fraction models by hand and line them up side by side, the comparison becomes something they can see and touch,...

How to Teach Multiples and Common Multiples with a Physical Venn Diagram

How to Teach Multiples and Common Multiples wit...

Is it a multiple of 3, a multiple of 4, or both? Switch-Its magnetic blocks turn that question into a physical sorting activity — every number gets held, processed, and...

How to Teach Multiples and Common Multiples wit...

Is it a multiple of 3, a multiple of 4, or both? Switch-Its magnetic blocks turn that question into a physical sorting activity — every number gets held, processed, and...

How to Teach Solving Algebraic Equations Step by Step

How to Teach Solving Algebraic Equations Step b...

Algebra isn't magic — it's a sequence of inverse operations. Switch-Its magnetic blocks let students place each move physically, one step at a time, until the variable stands alone.

How to Teach Solving Algebraic Equations Step b...

Algebra isn't magic — it's a sequence of inverse operations. Switch-Its magnetic blocks let students place each move physically, one step at a time, until the variable stands alone.

How to Teach Multiplication and Division with Math Arrays

How to Teach Multiplication and Division with M...

One array of 12 objects holds four equations inside it — 3×4, 4×3, 12÷3, 12÷4. Switch-Its magnetic blocks make all four visible at once, so students see multiplication and division...

How to Teach Multiplication and Division with M...

One array of 12 objects holds four equations inside it — 3×4, 4×3, 12÷3, 12÷4. Switch-Its magnetic blocks make all four visible at once, so students see multiplication and division...

How to Teach the Area Model for Multiplication and Factoring

How to Teach the Area Model for Multiplication ...

The area model reveals the structure behind multiplication and factoring. With Switch-Its magnetic blocks, students build the grid, fill in the partial products, and hold the distributive property in their...

How to Teach the Area Model for Multiplication ...

The area model reveals the structure behind multiplication and factoring. With Switch-Its magnetic blocks, students build the grid, fill in the partial products, and hold the distributive property in their...

Teaching Place Value with Hands-On Blocks

Teaching Place Value with Hands-On Blocks

Students can recite ones, tens, and hundreds long before they truly understand them, because place value is an abstract idea hiding inside a flat number. Here's a hands-on way to...

Teaching Place Value with Hands-On Blocks

Students can recite ones, tens, and hundreds long before they truly understand them, because place value is an abstract idea hiding inside a flat number. Here's a hands-on way to...

Teaching Part-Part-Whole from Numbers to Algebra

Teaching Part-Part-Whole from Numbers to Algebra

Part-part-whole is the foundation almost all of math is built on. Here's how a single visual structure can carry students from their first addition facts all the way to algebra,...

Teaching Part-Part-Whole from Numbers to Algebra

Part-part-whole is the foundation almost all of math is built on. Here's how a single visual structure can carry students from their first addition facts all the way to algebra,...

How do I teach place value with hands-on manipulatives?

How do I teach place value with hands-on manipu...

Students can recite "ones, tens, hundreds" long before they understand what those words mean. Place value is the first truly abstract concept many learners hit, and it's the foundation for...

How do I teach place value with hands-on manipu...

Students can recite "ones, tens, hundreds" long before they understand what those words mean. Place value is the first truly abstract concept many learners hit, and it's the foundation for...