Math Manipulation Among Young Students: Perceptions of Concrete Methods of Addressing Mathematics as Opposed to Traditional Methods.
school system. This paper achieves this goal by comparing and contrasting the literature on mathematics among teachers who use mathematic manipulation against the general perceptions held by practitioners of more complex "abstract" teaching methods for math. This paper concludes that utilizing math manipulatives helps to create a transitory means of identifying mathematical problems in contrast to a young student in the second grade being asked to abandon concrete math images, therefore increasing the overall understanding of mathematics among younger students.
