20 "Do it Yourself" Math Manipulatives for Kids

To help you in assisting your kids in developing their numeracy skills, here are some of the manipulative materials that you can make even while at home.

While literacy is important, the numeracy skills of our learners are equally necessary for their continuous success in education. Most educators say that people deal with numbers almost every day so there is no way a kid can skip from learning it.

It is known that shape is one of the first mathematical concepts that children can engage with. Building on this knowledge of how they perceive information allows us to introduce mathematical concepts early, which strongly influences their later achievement in mathematics. Research has also shown that learning numeracy skills increases oral language abilities including vocabulary, inference, independence and grammatical complexity. Further concentration, curiosity, imagination, flexibility, inventiveness, persistence and working memory also benefit from early numeracy exposure. 

Take note that the following materials have proven to be useful and effective by our fellow teachers which gave them positive results in the numeracy tests of their learners.