The Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children’s number sense. Rows of moveable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies.
The Number Rack is featured extensively throughout Bridges in Mathematics in grades K–3. We’ve compiled aRead more
Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computational skills with multi-digit numbers. Young learners can represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Number Pieces also gives them a drawing tool to label representations and show their understanding.Read more
On November 2nd combined downloads of the Geoboard and Number Rack apps from MLC exceeded 50,000, many from around the globe. In addition, thousands of users have accessed the web versions of these virtual manipulatives.
The Number Rack, or Rekenrek, was designed to support the natural mathematical development of children and specifically to help them generate a variety of addition and subtraction strategies.
MLC is pleased to announce the release of our Geoboard App, available at no charge from the iApps Store in iTunes and as a free web application.
"This is the second application in what will eventually be a full series of virtual manipulatives, all of which will retain the open-ended nature ofRead more
MLC announces the release of the Number Rack App available at no charge from the iApps Store in iTunes and as a free Web application.
"This is the first in a series of free applications we plan to develop as we continue to integrate more technology into our offerings." said Dan Raguse,Read more
