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unifix cubes

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Everybody show
This math game teaches number recognition and progression, and strengthens rote counting skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Mary Waldrup.
More or less
This lesson contains a series of activities on more or less. These activities can be used over several days or combined into a one-day lesson.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Sarah Owens.
Let's trade (regrouping to subtract)
This word (trade) will introduce regrouping to subtract by allowing students to "trade" manipulatives to regroup.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics)
By Sarah Cole.
Flipping around pentominoes
The students will use Unifix cubes to create the twelve different pentominoes. The students will join 5 Unifix cubes to make different shapes that will lie flat on a table or level surface. The students will then test for new shapes by flipping, sliding, or turning to create each different pentomino.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics)
By Dianne Wingate.
Working with patterns
Students use their knowledge of patterns to discover the remaining members of an established pattern as set forth in the Shodor activity called "Pattern Generator." Permission has been granted for the use of the Shodor materials as part of the workshop- "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students" by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)

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Colorful interlocking cubes used in mathematics education. Cubes can be grouped in many different ways to introduce patterns, and to demonstrate operations including counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

See also manipulative.

Examples and resources

Children in a Massachusetts teacher’s classroom demonstrate several uses of unifix cubes.