This video is one from a student majoring in Early Childhood Education. This video shows a lesson completed by that student using play dough as a manipulative to teach fractions. By using manipulatives, one can help students gain visual insight into the lesson at hand.
Do you think play dough would be a suitable manipulative for a student so young? Do you think the student would be tempted to roll the play dough up and not maintain the shapes? Do you think using different colors to represent halves, thirds, and fourths next time would affect the student?
This is interesting. My kids love play dough but more often than not they end up playing it in ways that you would rather them not i.e. put it in their nose/hair.... I think with activities such as this one the teacher needs multiple helpers and things to keep students on task at all times :)
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