manipulatives
- plural of manipulative.
Example Sentences
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“Kids should be outside, they should be playing, they should be using manipulatives and tactiles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
I could suggest ways of bringing manipulatives to traditional paper and pencil mathematics.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2020
This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
