Tag Archives: elementary math

posted on August 13, 2022

Some of the most successful elementary and middle school classrooms are those where students learn as much from each other as they do from their teachers. Such structures truly value student input and participation. 

Using manipulatives in math enriches the student experience by allowing students to experience their peers’ iterative processes first hand. These interactions, in turn, enrich the group experience. 

We designed intooba construction kits to offer a wide range of learning experiences in creativity, math, engineering, and budgeting. Teachers set their own values for the inputs thus enabling math interactions for a wide range of ages and abilities!

Here sixth graders build helicopters on a budget.

posted on July 2, 2018

Spiraling through the many years of a K-12 education are various levels of math, language, writing, social studies, the sciences, and the traditional topics we expect in such an environment. The education community is pushing towards STEM/STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math – with the inclusion of Art) with the realization that the space in which students will eventually be employed has changed dramatically. Not only has the environment changed with advances in technology, globalization, access to information, social and political change, and environmental challenges, but the pace of change is increasing. We are now trying to integrate the disciplines with a view to increased creativity through cross-discipline pollination. Is this enough? Are we fulfilling our essential and critical responsibility in providing opportunities to enable our children to operate successfully in this environment?

Essential features in education looking forward should include:

• learning to correctly and accurately find, describe, and solve complex challenges
• attaining the skills required to work successfully in groups
• the ability to welcome and work through adjustments, modifications, and failures
• demonstrating to students the practical applications of their classroom learning

To these ends, we at Blue Egg Advisory Group LLC have invented and developed a unique manipulative to foster these concepts in young learners (K-6) as they prepare for secondary school and beyond. Our INTOOBA Construction Kit manipulative offers many opportunities for hands-on experimentation through leveled curriculum manuals in math and engineering.

http://intooba.com