This 6-book series is a winner of Learning Magazine's 2011 Teachers' Choice Award for the Classroom!

Introducing Math Manipulatives on a Budget - smart, teacher-tested ideas, templates and lesson plan tools for the classroom! This book is loaded with creative, thrifty, smart, savvy, inexpensive (or free!), effective ideas. Math Manipulatives on a Budget includes reproducible templates that are ready-to-use, environmentally friendly tips on making the most of everyday items, and creative solutions that really work in the classroom. Click HERE to view two sample pages from this book.

The Table of Contents includes:
Clean Out That Desk • Bingo Adds Up • Dice and Hula Hoops • Yeah for the 100's • Craft Sticks Rock • Oink! For Math • Go Fish • A Piece of Pizza for Everyone • May I See That Menu, Please? • Where's My Shopping List? • Let's Play Dominoes • Beans! Beans! Beans! • Bend Those Pipe Cleaners • Toothpicks - Marshmallows - Geometry • Groceries and Budgets • It's a Match • Hunting for Angles • Thinking About Math • Let Your Fingers Do the Walking • Pass the Noodles, Please • It's A Puzzle • Take a Step • Distance Math • Get Moving with Numbers • Simon Says, “Be Parallel Lines” • Swat That Number • Name That Number • Just Multiply • What's My Change? • I Spy Numbers • Moooing for Math • What Time Is It In France? • Tell Us Your Favorite • More For Your Money • Templates

Teachers want to know that they are teaching students much more than the subject matter at hand - and what better life lesson to incorporate into their classroom than showing students a creative, “can-do” approach to operating on a budget! Money is tight yet teaching is as demanding as ever. Math Manipulatives on a Budget with its thrifty ideas and positive approach gives teachers everything they need!