New Insights and Implications

After talking about manipulatives in class, I can not believe how many manipulatives are available to teachers to use in the classroom. I think that they more a student is able to work with the manipulatives and use them the more they will understand what is being taught to them. I wish that when I was in grade school that my teachers had the manipulatives or used the manipulatives that were available to them, I think that if I was able to use them learning math that I would understand some concepts a lot better today. So this makes me understand that when I am in a teaching position that I should use the manipulatives available and let my students use them and learn new concepts with using the manipulatives.