There are many sites that offer free online math manipulatives in SO MANY formats. Below you'll find a list of resources for math manipulatives and activities. I'm highlighting the ones I know and love, but please add your own if I missed something fantastic!
Illuminations: Resources for Teaching Math - http://illuminations.nctm.org/
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has a fantastic site that offers MANY resources. To get to the activity resources, click on the Activities link from the main page. You can then search by a grade range or select all grades to search. The resources here are numerous and display quite large on your screen.
Some of my favs are: Equivalent Fractions, Grouping and Grazing (for counting, addition & subtraction)
eManipulatives - http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmtxm/
This is a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt site that has math emanipulatives sorted by grade level. Follow the steps below.
- Go to http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmtxm/
- Select your grade level (Or just go to 5th grade as it seems to have all of the manipulatives listed =)
- Click the link for eManipulatives
- Pick from the list of available manipulatives.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
I really like the setup of this site that is published by Utah State University. On the main page you will see a grid sorted by skills and grade level, just click the cell you want to get started!
Some of my favs are: Color Patterns, Bar Chart
Math Playground: Math Manipulatives - http://www.mathplayground.com/math_manipulatives.html
This site contains some great manipulatives and models for math. From the link above you will get to the main page that contains all of the math manipulatives available on this site. I really like that there are preview pics of the tools so that you can easily see if it's along the lines of what you're looking for. Just click the one you want to use to get started.
Some of my favs are: Fraction Scale & Math Bars
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