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• MATHRACK®

  1380 Langford Ct.
  Wheaton, Il. 60189
  630-682-0000

Why use a MathRack?

• The MathRack, a calculating frame, supports the natural mathematical development of children.
• The MathRack enables students to see, think, and manipulate moveable objects to deepen their number knowledge.
• The MathRack supports and stretches invented strategies of children.
• The MathRack requires children to use strategic thinking rather than procedural responses.
• The MathRack can be used for subitizing, supports discovery of all combinations, supports counting on, doubles, near doubles, subtraction as well as problem solving.
• The MathRack promotes automatized facts…children construct mental maps of number relationships.
• The MathRack is part of a whole math curriculum that provides the foundation of understanding number.

Testimonials

"MathRacks support children to move away from counting by ones, towards the use of strategies like doubles, addition, subtraction and making tens---a great way to help automatize the basic facts!"

Catherine Fosnot is a Professor of Education at the College of New York and Director of ‘Mathematics in the City’. She has received many awards for her excellence in teaching and is author of Young Mathematicians at Work and Contexts for Learning Mathematics