Hand Made Manipulative Instructions

• Click on a link and print out the page. These pages print the best using a PC and Explorer 4.0.
• Copy onto cardstock as many times as you need for a set. Enlarge the page so that it fills an 8.5 in. by 11 in. piece of paper if you like!
• Color (optional), laminate and cut out the pieces.
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1. Pattern Blocks - General Information
   Triangles, Squares, and Smaller Rhombus Cutouts
   Larger Rhombus Cutouts
   Trapezoids Cutouts
   Hexagon Cutouts
   


2. Base-Ten Blocks - Set of ones, tens, and hundreds.
   Base-Five Blocks - Set of ones, fives, and twenty-fives.
   Base X Block Information



3. XY-Blocks - Set of X, X², XY, Y, and Y² blocks. Each has a different shading. The shaded side can represent negative values.
   XY-Blocks Information



4. Attribute Blocks



5. Rods



6. Color Tiles



7. References for making paper fraction strips.

Graph Paper

1. Pattern Block Grid Paper
2. Geoboard Paper
3. Graph Paper
4. Polar Graph Paper

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